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1. Harold Bloom (Ed.), Saul Bellow: Modern Critical Views (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986), P Notes 1. Harold Bloom (ed.), Saul Bellow: Modern Critical Views (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986), p. 1. 2. Saul Bellow (ed.), Great Jewish Short Stories (New York: Dell Publishing, 1963), p. 13. 3. Quoted in Stanley Kunitz (ed.) Twentieth Century Authors, First Supple­ ment (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1955), p. 72. 4. Jo Brans, 'Common Needs, Common Preoccupations', in Stanley Trachtenberg (ed.) Critical Essays on Saul Bellow (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1979), p. 67. 5. Saul Bellow, in his foreword to Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon and Schuster Inc., 1987), p.14. 6. Alfred Kazin, 'My Friend Saul Bellow', Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1965, p.51. 7. Mark Harris, Saul Bellow: Drumlin Woodchuck (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1980), p. 182. 8. Joyce Illig, 'An Interview with Saul Bellow', Publishers Weekly, 22 Oct. 1973, p. 77. 9. Saul Bellow, 'The Thinking Man's Waste Land', Saturday Review, 3 April 1965, p. 20. 10. Saul Bellow, The Last Analysis (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966), p. vii. 11. Quoted in Mary Bruccoli (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Documentary Series, vol. 3 (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1983), p. 62. 12. Joseph Epstein, 'A Talk with Saul Bellow', New York Times Book Review, 5 Dec. 1976, p. 3. 13. Noam Chomsky, 'Bellow's Israel', New York Arts Journal, Spring 1977, pp.29-32. 14. Saul Bellow, 'I Haven't Hung up My Gloves Yet', Toronto Star, 11 March 1990, p. D6. 15. Saul Bellow, Foreword to Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, p. 13. 16. Brans, p. 66. 17. Harold Bloom, Saul Bellow, p. 1. 18. Gordon L. Harper, 'The Art of Fiction: Saul Bellow', Paris Review, 9 (1966), p. 56. 19. Edmund Wilson, New Yorker, 1 April 1944, p. 71; Delmore Schwartz, Partisan Review, 11 (1944), p. 348. 133 134 Notes 20. Bellow, GreatJewish Short Stories, p. 12. 21. Keith Opdahl, The Novels of Saul Bellow, (University Park, PA: Pennsyl­ vania State University Press, 1967), p. 48; Robert Dutton, Saul Bellow, (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982), p. 19. 22. Alan S. Downer, New York Times Book Review, 30 Nov. 1947, p. 29. 23. Reuben Frank, 'Saul Bellow: The Evolution of a Contemporary Novelist', Western Review, 18 (1984), p. 108. 24. Joshua Trachtenberg, The Devil and the Jews (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 3. 25. Clayton, p. 165. 26. Tony Tanner, Saul Bellow (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1965) p.36; Sarah Blacher Cohen, Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter (Urbana: Uni­ versity of Illinois Press, 1974), p. 61. 27. Beatrice Kalb, 'Biographical Sketch', Saturday Review of Literature, (Sept. 1953), p. 13. 28. Harper, p. 56. 29. Harvey Breit, 'A Talk with Saul Bellow', New York Times Book Review, 20 Sept. 1953, p. 22. 30. Robert Penn Warren, 'The Man with No Commitments', New Republic, 2 Nov. 1953, p.22; Norman Podhoretz, 'The Language of Life', Commentary 16 (1953), p. 80. 31. Opdahl, p. 74. 32. Warren, p. 23. 33. Leslie A. Fiedler, 'Saul Bellow', in Irving Malin (ed.) Saul Bellow and the Critics (New York: New York University Press, 1967), p. 7. 34. For a Freudian reading of the story see D. Weiss, 'Caliban on Prospero: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Novel Seize the Day by Saul Bellow', American Imago 19 (1962), pp.227-306. For an account of Reich's influence see Eusebio Rodrigues, 'Reichianism in Seize the Day, in Stanley Trachtenberg, pp. 89-100. 35. Harvey Swados, 'A Breather from Saul Bellow', New York Post Maga­ zine, 18 Nov. 1956, p. 11. 36. Robert O. Bowen, 'Bagels, Sour Cream and the Heart of the Current Novel', Northwest Review, 1 (1957), pp. 52-6; Fuchs, p. 83. 37. Saul Bellow, 'Deep Readers of the World, Beware', New York Times Book Review, 15 Feb. 1959, p. 1. 38. See Eusebio Rodrigues, Quest for the Human: An Exploration of Saul Bellow's Fiction (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1981), pp. 198- 257. 39. Leslie Fiedler, Waiting for the End (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967), p. 109. See also Opdahl, pp. 124-6. 40. Tanner, p. 84. 41. Norman Podhoretz, New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 22 Feb. 1959, p. 3. 42. Fuchs, p. 99. 43. Bellow, The Last Analysis, p. vii. 44. Forest Read, 'Herzog: A Review', Epoch, 14 (1964), p. 81. 45. David Galloway, The Absurd Hero in American Fiction (Austin: Uni­ versity of Texas Press, 1966), p. 138. Notes 135 46. David Boroff, 'About the Author', Saturday Review of Literature, 19 Sept. 1964, p. 39. 47. Richard Poirier, 'Bellows to Herzog', Partisan Review, 32 (1965), p.270. 48. J. W. Aldridge, 'The Complacency of Herzog', Time to Murder and Create: The Contemporary Novel in Crisis (New York: McKay, 1966), pp.133-8. 49. Irving Howe, 'Odysseus, Flat on His Back', New Republic, 19 Sept. 1964, p. 26. 50. Brans, p. 66. 51. Keith Cushman, 'Mr. Bellow's Sammler: The Evolution of a Contem­ porary Text', in Stanley Trachtenberg, pp. 141-57. 52. Alfred Kazin, 'Though He Slay Me .. .', New York Review of Books, 3 Dec. 1970, p. 3. 53. Harris, pp. 119-20. 54. Gerald Graff, Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 230. 55. Brans, p. 58. 56. Richard Stern, 'Bellow's Gift', The New York Times Magazine, 21 Nov. 1976, pp. 46, 48. 57. Brans, p. 60. 58. Joseph Epstein, 'A Talk with Saul Bellow', New York Times Book Review, 5 Dec. 1976, p. 93. 59. Quoted in 'A Laureate Blinks in the Limelight', New York Times, 22 Oct. 1976, p. 10. 60. Harold Bloom, Saul Bellow, p. 5. 61. Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (Harmonds­ worth: Penguin Books, 1977), p. 164. 62. William Kennedy, 'If Saul Bellow Doesn't Have a True Word to Say, He Keeps His Mouth Shut', Esquire, Feb. 1982, p. 50. 63. Fuchs, pp. 305-9; Jonathan Wilson, On Bellow's Planet: Readings from the Dark Side (Cranbury NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1985), p. 29. 64. Terrence Rafferty, 'Hearts and Minds', New Yorker, 20 July 1987, pp.89-91. 65. Stephen L. Tanner, 'The Religious Vision of More Die of Heartbreak, in Gloria L. Cronin and L. H. Goldman, Saul Bellow in the 1980s: A Collection of Critical Essays (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988), pp.283-96. 66. See reviews by Charles Michaud, Library Journal, 15 March 1989, p. 84; William H. Pritchard, Hudson Review, Autumn, 1989, p. 490; John Updike, New Yorker, 1 May 1989, pp. Ill, 113-14. 67. Robert Towers, New York Review of Books, 7 April 1989, p. 50. 68. In a letter to the author, 25 Oct. 1989. 69. Unsigned review, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 1989, p. 146. 70. Irving Malin (ed.), Saul Bellow and the Critics (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967), p. vii. 71. Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1973). 136 Notes 72. Saul Bellow, 'Starting Out in Chicago', American Scholar, 44 (Winter 1974-5), p. 72. 73. Saul Bellow, Foreword to Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, p. 17. Select Bibliography BELLOW'S PRINCIPAL WRITINGS Dangling Man (1944) The Victim (1947) The Adventures of Augie March (1953) Seize the Day (1956) Henderson the Rain King (1959) Herzog (1964) The Last Analysis (1965) Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968) Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) Humboldt's Gift (1975) To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976) The Dean's December (1982) Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984) More Die of Heartbreak (1987) The Theft (1989) The Bellarosa Connection (1989) SELECTED CRITICISM Bloom, Harold (ed.), Saul Bellow: Modern Critical Views (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986). --, Saul Bellow's Herzog (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988). Bradbury, Malcolm, Saul Bellow (London: Methuen, 1982). Braham, Jeanne A., A Sort of Columbus: The American Voyages of Saul Bellow (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984). Clayton, John J., Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man (Bloomington, University of Indiana Press, 1979). Cohen, Sarah Blacher, Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1974). Cronin, Gloria L. and L. H. Goldman, Saul Bellow in the I 980s: A Collection of Critical Essays (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1989). Dutton, Robert, Saul Bellow (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982). Fuchs, Daniel, Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision (Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 1984). 137 138 Select Bibliography Goldman, Liela H., Saul Bellow's Moral Vision: A Study of the Jewish Experience (New York: Irvington Publishers, 1983). Kiernan, Robert F., Saul Bellow (New York: Continuum, 1989). McCadden, Joseph F., The Flight from Women in the Fiction of Saul Bellow (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1980). Malin, Irving (ed.), Saul Bellow and the Critics (New York: New York University Press, 1967). --, Saul Bellow's Fiction (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969). Newman, Judie, Saul Bellow and History (London: Macmillan Press, 1984). Opdahl, Keith, The Novels of Saul Bellow (University Park, PA: Pennsylva­ nia State University Press, 1967). Pifer, Ellen, Saul Bellow: Against the Grain (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990). Porter, M. Gilbert, Whence the Power? The Artistry and Humanity of Saul Bellow (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974). Rodrigues, Eusebio L., Quest for the Human: An Exploration of Saul Bellow's Fiction (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1981). Tanner, Tony, Saul Bellow (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1965). Trachtenberg, Stanley (ed.), Critical Essays on Saul Bellow (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979). Wilson, Jonathan, On Bellow's Planet: Readings from the Dark Side (Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985). There is now a variety of bibliographies of Bellow's works and critical writings on them.
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