“A master of a short phrase and a large shape …” – this is Sol Bellow, who was repeatedly called the most significant English writer of the second half of the 20th century. His talent is marked by the highest literary award of the United States – the Pulitzer Prize and the Higher Literary Prize of the World – Nobel. The magazine “Vanity Fair” rightly wrote: “Bellou is the most outstanding American prose writer along with the folkner.”
The second novel of Sol Bellou.
Criticism called him the “best English-language work of the 1940s” and compared with the early works of Dostoevsky.
At first, the story about the editor of a small New York magazine, joyfully plunging into bachelor freedom during his wife’s departure, soon turns into an amazing parable. The parable of the self -expression of personality and the complexity of the human soul, eternally torn between high impulses and low passions …
Author
Bellou Sol
Translator
Suritz Elena Aleksandrovna
Publisher
Astrel, 2012
Series
Book for all times
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