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Saul Bellow's fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now, in his first nonfiction collection, Bellow's learned and original mind shines through over four decades of reflections on literature, on the state of the artist in the "violent uproar" of contemporary life, and on life itself, "the mysteries of our common human nature.".
Beginning with "Mozart: An Overture," a personal bicentennial tribute to the composer who means so much to Bellow, these carefully selected pieces, illuminated by Bellow's absolute clarity of language, range from his Nobel Prize lecture of 1976 to ruminations about his beloved city of Chicago, a city, Bellow writes, that "builds itself up, knocks itself down again, scrapes away the rubble, and starts over"; to remembrances of passing friends - John Cheever, Allan Bloom, Isaac Rosenfeld, John Berryman; to the state of the novel in our time.
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It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
June 1, 1995, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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It all adds up: from the dim past to the uncertain future : a nonfiction collection
1995, Penguin
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It all adds up: from the dim past to the uncertain future : a nonfiction collection
1994, Viking
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It all adds up: from the dim past to the uncertain future : a nonfiction collection
1994, Viking
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It all adds up: from the dim past to the uncertainfuture : a non-fiction collection
1994, Secker & Warburg
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