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The New York Times obituary, April 6, 2005. "...his birthdate is listed as either June or July 10, 1915, though his lawyer, Mr. Pozen, said yesterday that Mr. Bellow customarily celebrated in June. (Immigrant Jews at that time tended to be careless about the Christian calendar, and the records are inconclusive.)"

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Of course, the picture may change all over again. Pretty well the only useful sentence in the thoroughly superfluous memoir by Harriet Wasserman,* Bellow's former agent, reports the existence of two uncompleted novels, which may still emerge. And even that disclosure feels impertinent. When I reflect that the Wasserman volume (my proof copy has had the final section physically sheared out of it, doing little for its general deportment) is a mere look-see compared to James Atlas's massive anatomy the Life, due next year I find that my protective instincts are strongly stirred. Among many other things, The Actual reminds us that the fiction is the actual, the truthful record. As its narrator, Harry Trellman, observes: Your inwardness should be deserves to be a secret about which nobody needs to get excited. Like the old gag. Q: 'What's the difference between ignorance and indifference?' A: 'I don't know and I don't care.'

The stories brought together in Him with His Foot in His Mouth, and Other Stories can be divided into two types: The title story and What Kind of Day Did You Have? (both novella-length pieces) feature powerful, aging Jewish intellectuals trying to come to grips with the course their lives have taken and bridge the world of ideas with the sensate, real world around them. The other three stories in the volume—“Zetland: By a Character Witness,” “A Silver Dish,” and “Cousins”—are cut from the same fabric as “Looking for Mr. Green.” They vividly, almost nostalgically, evoke a past, between the wars and after, and portray the assimilation of Jews in the United States. What is impressive in all of these stories is the wide historical swath they cut; Bellow’s concern here, as elsewhere, is no less than the human condition in the twentieth century.The problem, of course, is that Harry's judgmental intellect and craving for some sort of higher life are also the very things that cut him off from humanity -- and from love. It is the dilemma that faces many Bellow heroes: how to balance side, community with the threat of shallowness and vulgarity; on the other, self-reliance with the threat of solipsism. writer. During his last illness, he reads a critic's description of Vermeer's ''View of Delft,'' then on exhibit in Paris. Bergotte thought he knew the painting well, but could not recall a particular patch Christopher Hitchens. "Jewish American titan from the ghetto". www.thejc.com . Retrieved December 16, 2022. It also gives him a chance to let Harry carry on, Sammler-like, about the illusions and delusions of the people he meets.



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