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Article: Literary allusions in Saul bellow's Herzog.(Critical essay)
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- Notes on Contemporary Literature
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- January 1, 2009
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Saul Bellow is the most learned and intellectual American novelist and the autobiographical Moses Herzog (named after a character in the "Cyclops" chapter of Joyce's Ulysses) is his best-read and brainiest fictional hero. The novel tracks and savors the restless, wide-ranging and ever-inquiring quality of Herzog's mind. Herzog not only dazzles us with his brilliance, but also offers witty parodies and ironic variants of quotations that illuminate his anguished condition. Understanding these often obscure and covert allusions--many of them from the Bible and Shakespeare-enhances meaning as well as the pleasure of reading the novel. The Viking Critical Edition of Herzog, ...
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