Saul Bellow Sorin, Gerald (State University of New York at Paltz) Brwinów

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 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'-- Autor: Gerald (State University of New York at Paltz) Sorin Wydawnictwo: Indiana University Press Rok wydania: 2024 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 602 Wymiary: 15.3 x 23 x 3.8 cm Ilustracje: 13 b&w photos Język: angielski ISBN: 9780253069443