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Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the full drama of one man's search to affirm his own worth and humanity.
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SAUL BELLOW's dazzling career as a novelist has been marked with numerous literary prizes, including the 1976 Nobel Prize, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. His other books include The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, More Die of Heartbreak, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize The Day and The Victim. Saul Bellow died in 2005. Cynthia Ozick (b.1928 ) is an American writer whose works are about Jewish American life. Ozick Her most recent novel, Heir to the Glimmering World (2004), has received much praise in the literary press. She was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize
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When it came to concealing his troubles, Tommy Wilhelm was not less capable than the next fellow. Read the first page
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as it looks.,
By Grazyna Kaplo (Clark,NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Seize the Day (Paperback)
While I was looking for a book to read over the summer, I found a small-size novel with catchy title SEIZE THE DAY. Moreover,the author of the book, as I found out, was the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. All excited and willing to read, I lay down on the beach and grabbed my book. However, after reading few pages I realized that this short novel was definitely not what I 'd expected it to be. It was the most boring book I have ever read. Nothing, but nothing really happened throughout it. Instead of action, there were pages of precise descrioptions of places, people, things and not many dialoges, which I like so much. SEIZE THE DAY, a story of a man, who is complete, miserable loser in life, who constantly repeats his mistakes and doesn't really try to change his life, didn't entertain me at all. After finishing the book, I was bored and tired of hearing of his continuous problems caused by himself. So, if you are looking for entertaining and interesting book with action, as I did, SEIZE THE DAY is not for you.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Lard have mercy,
By A.J. (Maryland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Seize the Day (Paperback)
"Seize the Day" is a sad little novel about a man, lost in the wilderness of his life, whose struggle "toward the consummation of his heart's ultimate need" can succeed only when he surrenders his composure to his deepest emotions, that secret place in all of us from which we beckon our tears. The one day in which the entire novel takes place completely encapsulates his past, present, and future into the portrait of a man mired in his environment.The man is 44-year-old Tommy Wilhelm who, like some of Bellow's other fictional protagonists Augie March, Eugene Henderson, and Moses Herzog, is a little piece of the chaos of twentieth-century urban America distilled into a single confused character. Wilhelm is a native New Yorker (although it's obvious his author is not), a failed actor, and an unemployed former sales executive. He is separated from his wife, who is always selfishly demanding from him money that he doesn't have, and his two sons. His only financial support now is from his father, a successful physician who is annoyed by his son's lack of discipline but nevertheless brags about his past accomplishments to anyone who will listen. Wilhelm has a friend named Dr. Tamkin who professes to be a psychologist, has many various interests but dubious talents, and persuades him to invest his last dollar in lard commodities. Tamkin, a world traveler, has told Wilhelm that he "had attended some of the Egyptian royal family as a psychiatrist," a statement that evokes an image of the biblical Joseph prophesying for the Pharaoh seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine; but Tamkin's optimistic expectation for lard is all profit, no loss. His philosophy is that the future is not worth the worry; live for the "here-and-now": seize the day. He is undoubtedly a charlatan, but in Wilhelm's eyes he means well. One of the novel's themes is atonement, which is signified by the reference to Yom Kippur. Wilhelm is not very religious and has not planned to attend a synagogue, but he recognizes the importance of saying Yiskor for his dead mother; his sincere but idle threat to the unknown hoodlums who vandalized the bench next to her grave will not suffice to honor her memory. Ironically, the place where he ultimately atones is the funeral of a man who is evidently not Jewish (open casket, presence of flowers) -- and he weeps with the knowledge that death is all we achieve from life. Seize the day, indeed.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Read for Writers,
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This review is from: Seize the Day (Paperback)
Suffering...we've all had it...or it's coming...is Bellow's theme of this work. I've never read an author who described heartbreak and tears so well as Saul Bellow. My face was red and hot and strained by the time I finished the book--he moved me! Suffering--admitting and recognizing that anguish might be your temporary lot in life--has never been so beautifully penned and honestly told. The more I think of the book, the less I like it for the story, but the more I appreciate its truthfulness in describing how problems can stack higher and higher and higher and nobody will help you.I think you'll find what the main characters "seizes" after a few days of thinking and observing life on your own. Read it! It's only 120 pages packed with a lot of insight.
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