Ravelstein by Saul Bellow Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant
professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man
who glories in training the movers and shakers of the
political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and
much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has
suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions
about the ideas which sustain humankind or kill it and
much to Ravelsteins own surprise he does and becomes a
millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write
a memoir or a life of him and during the course of a
celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on
mortality philosophy and history loves and friends old and
new and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood
turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest
and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly
dies. Deeply insightful and always moving Saul Bellows
heartfelt novel is a journey through love and memory. It
is brave dark and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship
and to lives well (or badly) lived.
- שם: Ravelstein
- מחבר: Saul Bellow
- תחום: סיפורת
- תת תחום: ספרות מקור
- מקט: ORB-824087
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