Saul Bellow: "I was a Jew and an American and a writer

"Born in 1915 to Russian Jewish immigrants, Saul Bellow was raised in the small town - "a medieval" shtetl he called it - of Lachine, Quebec, and then in a predominantly Jewish section of Montreal until the age of nine. He had a trilingual childhood which included Yiddish as well as E...

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Main Author: Sorin, Gerald 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press 2024
Series:The modern Jewish experience
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Online Access:DE-384
Summary:"Born in 1915 to Russian Jewish immigrants, Saul Bellow was raised in the small town - "a medieval" shtetl he called it - of Lachine, Quebec, and then in a predominantly Jewish section of Montreal until the age of nine. He had a trilingual childhood which included Yiddish as well as English and French. In an insightful new look at Bellow's life and career, Gerald Sorin argues that Bellow's immersion in Yiddish and childhood memories of the vibrant Jewish life on Montreal's Napoleon and Dominique streets continued to echo in his adult inner ear and permeated almost all of his writing. Much of Bellow's creative power, including the dynamic, comic, and lusty language that became his literary signature, was shaped and informed by the fact that he was Jewish"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (603 Seiten)
ISBN:9780253069443
9780253069436

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