Humboldt’s Gift
Author: Saul Bellow
The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described “comic book about death,” whose title character is modeled on the self-destructive lyric poet Delmore Schwartz. Charlie Citrine, an intellectual, middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays, contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life: Von Humbold….Read More
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