Bellow's novels renowned for the observed isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibility of human consciousness, highlighting his Jewish blood. Bellow gets inspiration from Chicago, the city of her adoption, and most of his work in the background there. His works show the high and low culture, and fictional characters are also a mixture of intellectual dreamers and those who believe in themselves. During the Guggenheim fellowship in Paris, he wrote most of his famous novel, The Adventures of Augie March (1953).
Early life
He was born Solomon (nicknamed 'Sollie') Bellows in Lachine, Quebec (now part of Montreal), immediately after His parents moved from St. Petersburg. Petersburg, the Russian Empire. It is unclear whether the Bellows (who later discard the letter 's' from last name) was born in June or July 1915, because in the birth of the Jewish immigrants tend to be indifferent to the Christian calendar (Bellow commemorate her birthday in June). The hospital infection respiratory tract at the age of 8 to teach self-confidence (he was a brave even nerds) and provide an opportunity to quench thirst Bellow to read: tell he decided to become a writer when he first read Uncle Tom's cottage Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe's work.
The family moved to the suburbs of Chicago, a city that will form the background most of the novel, when she was 9. Bellow's father, Abram, is an importer of onions. He also worked at a bakery, delivering coal and the alcohol smugglers. Bellow are deeply religious mother, Liza, wants his youngest son, Saul, a rabbi or a concert violinist. But he rebelled against what was then called "the stifling orthodoxy" of his religious upbringing, and he began writing at a young age. [3] Bellow eternal love of the Bible that everything starts at age 4 when he learned Hebrew. Bellow also read William Shakespeare and Russian novelists of the 19th century. [4] John Podhoretz, a student at the University of Chicago, said that Bellow and his close friend Allan Bloom (see Ravelstein), 'inhaled books and ideas as the rest of us breathe air'.
In the 1930s, Bellow is the Chicago branch of the WPA Writer's Project, which includes the Chicago literary stars such as Richard Wright and Nelson Algren. Most of the writers were radical: if they are not members of the Communist Party, they are communist sympathizers. Many people like Richard Wright, also participated in the John Reed Clubs branch led by the Communist Party. There is also the Stalinists, who only read books that are recognized party, and the Trotskyists, who read out a list of recognized. Bellow is a Trotskyist and read the list of recognized it. Due to the large number of Stalinist writers, Bellow must menderitai ridicule them. (Source: Nelson Algren, A Life on the Wild Side, author, Bettina Drew (1991, University of Texas Press, Austin)
During World War II, Bellow joined the merchant marine, and during his long tenure he completed his first novel "Dangling Man" (1944). The book is about a Chicago boy who waits in the war.
Career
Bellow taught at the University of Minnesota, New York, Princeton, Chicago, Bard College and Boston University, where he also taught with James Wood ('modestly he resigned' when it comes time to discuss Seize the Day). To take over his appointment at Boston, Bellow moved from Chicago to Brookline, Massachusetts in 1993, where he died on 5 April 2005, at age 89. He is buried in the Jewish Ingestion Shir he harim in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Bellow prasarjanan begin studies at the University of Chicago, but left him to finish his studies are not in English but of anthropology at Northwestern University. It is estimated that influence this anthropological study of literary style. He was married five times (the son from his first marriage, Adam, wrote In Praise of Nepotism).
Before starting his career as a writer, Bellow writes book reviews for 10 dollars each. Mereputasikannya his early work as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century, and at the time of his death he was considered to some as the greatest living novelist in English. He was the first novelist who won the National Book Award three times.
Criticism
Bellow's opponents considered his work conventional and old-fashioned, as if the author is trying to renew the European novel of the 19th century. The characters in the novels end up not entirely true, they said. Herzog, Henderson, and the characters are "larger than life" others in his novels the latter does not appear to be created from real life, but the author's philosophical obsessions. Vladimir Nabokov Bellow calls "pathetic." His characters seen as a vehicle for philosophical parent or a chance to show his knowledge.
Bellow reports on his trip to Israel in 1973, To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account, criticized by Noam Chomsky in his book in 1983 Fateful Triangle: the United States, Israel and the Palestinians. He was also criticized for praising controversial book Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, which challenged the conventional history of the Palestinian people.
Although synonymous with Chicago, Bellow distance themselves from the writers of a more conventional city.
