Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March (1953 1st. ed.)

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Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March

A novel

New York, The Viking Press, 1953, first edition

Hardcover. Half cloth. Title in gold on the spine. No dust jacket
14,5 x 21,5 x 4 cm.
504 Pages

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Augie's nonconformity leads him into an eventful, humorous, and sometimes earthy way of life.

Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.” It’s the “Call me Ishmael” of mid-20th-century American fiction. (For the record, Bellow was born in Canada.) Or it would be if Ishmael had been more like Tom Jones with a philosophical disposition. With this teeming book Bellow returned a Dickensian richness to the American novel. As he makes his way to a full brimming consciousness of himself, Augie careens himself through numberless occupations, and countless mentors and exemplars, all the while enchanting us with the slapdash American music of his voice.

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; July 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was an American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.
He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited
The mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, draste and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age.

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