- Poets, Legacies, Fiction in English, Fiction
For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman, and involved with a neurotic mafioso.
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- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Saul Bellow
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 487
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Plaza & Janés, FISCHER Taschenbuch
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- German, English, heb, French
- ISBN
- 9788481097894
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“The book of ballads published by Von Humboldt Fleisher in the Thirties was an immediate hit.”
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.[2] He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and the only writer to have been nominated for it six times. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow
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