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Article: Bellow: A Biography.(Review) (book review)
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Bellow: A Biography Random House 608 pages James Atlas
Bellowing
ONE CAN'T READ THIS NEW biography of Saul Bellow without feeling sorry for its author. Literary biography is a famously fraught genre, especially when one sets out to write, as James Atlas claims to have done, about one's "hero." How much more difficult the task must be when the subject is not only still a literary presence--as the eighty-five-year-old Nobel laureate continues to be--but also a notoriously prickly "biographobe."
Anxiety about the job emanates from the pages of Atlas' book. In a long, careful introduction, he explains that this is at once an unauthorized and an ...
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