Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (Paperback)

by Saul Bellow (Author)

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (Jun 30 1977)
ISBN-10: 0140045244
ISBN-13: 978-0140045246
Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.9 x 1.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 118 g

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3.0 out of 5 stars Unleavened Bread, Aug 29 2000

By	Tom Adair (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

Of these six short stories - written between 1951 and 1968 - it is easy to find things to praise, difficult to find things to criticise. They are, all of them, dense, substantial, well-crafted, (highly?) intellectual, richly satisfying. Why should one want to say anything against them? Well: 'satisfying' - more, perhaps, in the manner of a cross-country run than a raspberry souffle. 'Intellectual': perhaps too intellectual to avoid the charge of monotonousness. All Bellow's characters are assiduously introspective and intensely aware. In consequence, Bellow has perfected a prose style based upon the agglomeration of clauses rather than the sequencing of fully-formed sentences; a type of stream-of-consciousness. This can be as tiring as it is effective. More than this, Bellow's characters are always radically isolated people. They think, think, think and hardly do any interacting with other people (although they often think about doing so). One never hesitates to say that Bellow, in these stories, is telling us the truth about man; one does hesitate to say that he entertains us with that truth.

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