2. With Bellow, if you set aside apprentice work, good but too long novels, and long decline starting with Sammler, you get 3 or 4 novels.
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3. Maybe that Library of America approach of collecting all the novels & novellas was a mistake. It really highlights Bellow's vulnerability
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@Benjaminjaninja His best book, I think.
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@HeerJeet You know, all I ever read of his was Henderson the Rain King. I wouldn't say I disliked it but I felt uncurious about trying more. -
@notjessewalker Herzog is worth reading. It has an urgency and a felt quality that his other fiction often lacks.
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@HeerJeet It's also possible that the person reading him today is different from the person who first read him. (Not a defense of his work)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Hitchens, Amis, Roth would disagree. I disagree.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet perhaps not everything is supposed to be consumed "in bulk." -
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@HeerJeet Of important post WWII Jewish American novelists, the one whose work most stands the test of time is Philip Roth. -
@thecob82 I agree. That's not anything people would've said in, say, 1980. But it's true. - Show replies
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