Humboldt s Gift The novel for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in is a self described comic book about death whose title character is modeled on the self destructive lyric poet Del Schwartz Cha
The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self described comic book about death, whose title character is modeled on the self destructive lyric poet Del Schwartz Charlie Citrine, an intellectual, middle aged author of award winning biographies and plays, contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life Von HumboldThe novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self described comic book about death, whose title character is modeled on the self destructive lyric poet Del Schwartz Charlie Citrine, an intellectual, middle aged author of award winning biographies and plays, contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life Von Humboldt Fleisher, a dead poet who had been his mentor, and Rinaldo Cantabile, a very much alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt s existence Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one s creative spirit Rinaldo, Charlie s self appointed financial adviser, has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit At the novel s end, Charlie has managed to set his own course.
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Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago He attended the University of Chicago, received his Bachelor s degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II.Mr Bellow s first novel, Dangling Man, was published in 1944, and his second, The Victim, in 1947 In 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent two years in Paris and traveling in Europe, where he began The Adventures of Augie March,, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954 Later books include Seize The Day 1956 , Henderson The Rain King 1959 , Herzog 1964 , Mosby s Memoirs and Other Stories 1968 , and Mr Sammler s Planet 1970 Humboldt s Gift 1975 , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Both Herzog and Mr Sammler s Planet were awarded the National Book Award for fiction Mr Bellow s first non fiction work, To Jerusalem and Back A Personal Account, published on October 25,1976, is his personal and literary record of his sojourn in Israel during several months in 1975.In 1965 Mr Bellow was awarded the International Literary Prize for Herzog, becoming the first American to receive the prize In January 1968 the Republic of France awarded him the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by that nation to non citizens, and in March 1968 he received the B nai B rith Jewish Heritage Award for excellence in Jewish literature , and in November 1976 he was awarded the America s Democratic Legacy Award of the Anti Defamation League of B nai B rith, the first time this award was made to a literary personage.A playwright as well as a novelist, Saul Bellow was the author of The Last Analysis and of three short plays, collectively entitled Under the Weather, which were produced on Broadway in 1966 He contributed fiction to Partisan Review, Playboy, Harper s Bazaar, The New Yorker, Esquire, and to literary quarterlies His criticism appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Horizon, Encounter, The New Republic, The New Leader, and elsewhere During the 1967 Arab lsraeli conflict, he served as a war correspondent for Newsday He taught at Bard College, Princeton University, and the University of Minnesota, and was a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.