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It all adds up

from the dim past to the uncertain future : a nonfiction collection

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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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Viking
Language
English
Pages
327

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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)
in English
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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 uncertainfuture : a non-fiction collection
1994, Secker & Warburg
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It All Adds Up
September 12, 1994, Secker & Warburg
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Dewey Decimal Class
814/.52
Library of Congress
PS3503.E4488 O23 1994, PS3503.E4488 I8 1994, PS3503.E4488O23 1994

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Pagination
xiii, 327 p. ;
Number of pages
327

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Open Library
OL1416035M
Internet Archive
italladdsupfromd00bell
ISBN 10
0670853313
LCCN
93025554
OCLC/WorldCat
28375881
Library Thing
29266
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761631

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