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Article: Saul Bellow's non-fiction: At age 79, the Nobel Prize-winning
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- Jewish Exponent
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- August 12, 1994
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Sanford Pinsker
Jewish Exponent
08-12-1994
Saul Bellow's non-fiction: At age 79, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist. publishes 30 of his pungent essays
It is one of the special cruelties of contemporary life that Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Augie March and Seize the Day, of Herzog and Mr. Sammler's Planet, is now more widely known for the much ballyhooed and politically incorrect positions he presumably takes.
The latter include his "introduction" to Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, an assault on educational and moral relativism that produced squeals of outrage; a stray remark he may, or may not, have made to an interviewer about the Zulus and Tolstoy, to the ...
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