Презентация на тему Saul Bellow

Lachine, Quebec, Canada, two years after his parents emigrated

from Saint Petersburg, Russia.
A period of illness from a respiratory infection at age eight both taught him self-reliance (he was a very fit man despite his sedentary occupation) and provided an opportunity to satisfy his hunger for reading.
When Bellow was nine,
his family moved to the
Humboldt Park
neighborhood of Chicago

Chicago but later transferred to Northwestern University.
He originally wanted

to study literature, but he felt the English department to be anti-Jewish; instead, he graduated with honors in anthropology and sociology.
During World War II, Bellow joined the merchant marine.
From 1946 through 1948 Bellow taught at the University of Minnesota.
In the late 1950s he taught creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.

Bellow won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1976.
The

following year, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Bellow for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S.
federal government's
highest honor for
achievementin the
humanities.
His early works
earned him the
reputation as one of the
foremost novelists of the
20th century

Humboldt's Gift (1975)

but his last marriage ending in divorce. His son

by his second marriage, Adam, published a nonfiction book In Praise of Nepotism in 2003. Bellow's wives were Anita Goshkin, Alexandra Tsachacbasov, Susan Glassman, Alexandra Ionescu Tulcea and Janis Freedman. In 1999, when he was 84, Bellow had a daughter, Rosie, his fourth child, with Freedman.

disorienting nature of modern civilization, and the countervailing ability

of humans to overcome their frailty and achieve greatness (or at least awareness).
Principal characters in Bellow's fiction have heroic potential, and many times they stand in contrast to the negative forces of society.
Jewish life and identity is a major theme in Bellow's work, although he bristled at being called a "Jewish writer."
Bellow's work also shows a great appreciation of America, and a fascination with the uniqueness and vibrancy of the American experience.

National Book Award (1964)