1979 #4 of 350 SAUL BELLOW. NOBEL LECTURE. Signed 1st + dust jacket

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1979 #4 of 350 SAUL BELLOW. NOBEL LECTURE. Signed 1st + dust jacket Description TITLE: NOBEL LECTURE. DATE: 1979. AUTHOR: Saul Bellow. PRINTER/PUBLISHER: Targ Edition. Oliphant Press: NY. Size: Pages: 20 pages. The book measures approximately 6 7/8 by 10 1/4 inches. Condition: An absolutely beautiful copy! This book is in Very Fine, clean condition . There are no flaws to the book, not a single mark or name of a previous owner. Basically the book looks like it did the day it was published. The plain white paper dust jacket shows just a little age toning around the edges which you can see in the picture. There is some minor edge wear to the dust jacket which I don't think you can even see in the picture. We thank Wikipedia for much of the information below Saul Bellow Bellow at the Miami Book Fair International of 1990 Born Solomon Bellows June 10, 1915 Lachine , Quebec , Canada Died April 5, 2005 (aged 89) Brookline , Massachusetts , United States Occupation Writer Nationality Canadian /American Ethnicity Jewish Alma mater University of Chicago Northwestern University University of Wisconsin-Madison Notable award(s) Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1976 National Medal of Arts 1988 National Book Award 1954, 1965, 1971 Spouse(s) Anita Goshkin (1937-1956) Alexandra Tschacbasov (1956-1959) Susan Glassman (1961-1964) Alexandra Bagdasar Ionescu Tulcea (1974-1985) Janis Freedman (1989-2005) Influences [show] Influenced [show] Signature This book is over 30 years old! Visit my eBay Store, A B and C TREASURES Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age." His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift and Ravelstein. Widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest authors, Bellow has had a "huge literary influence." Bellow said that of all his characters Eugene Henderson, of "Henderson the Rain King," was the one most like himself. Bellow grew up as an insolent slum kid, a "thick-necked" rowdy, and an immigrant from Quebec. As Christopher Hitchens describes it, Bellow's fiction and principal characters reflect his own yearning for transcendence, a battle "to overcome not just ghetto conditions but also ghetto psychoses." Bellow's protagonists, in one shape or another, all wrestle with what Corde (Albert Corde, the dean in "The Dean's December") called "the big-scale insanities of the 20th century." This transcendence of the "unutterably dismal" (a phrase from Dangling Man) is achieved, if it can be achieved at all, through a "ferocious assimilation of learning" (Hitchens) and an emphasis on nobility. In 1989, Bellow received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. The Helmerich Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust. Saul Bellow was born Solomon Bellows in Lachine, Quebec, two years after his parents, Lescha (née Gordin) and Abraham Bellows, emigrated from Saint Pete... read more

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