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Saul Bellow''s Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction.

Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of the modern age. In a crumbling house which he shares with rats, his head buzzing with ideas, he writes frantic, unsent letters to friends and enemies, colleagues and famous people, the living and the dead, revealing the spectacular workings of his labyrinthine mind and the innermost secrets of his troubled heart.

This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury

''Spectacular ... surely Bellow''s greatest novel''
Malcolm Bradbury

''A masterpiece ... Herzog''s voice, for all its wildness and strangeness and foolishness, is the voice of a civili

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The character of Herzog is Bellow's grandest creation, and his mind is as rich as the mind of any character in American literature -- Philip Roth
Spectacular ... surely Bellow's greatest novel -- Malcolm Bradbury
A writer of genius * Sunday Times *
Nobody else has ever sat down and wallowed to this extent in his own life, with full art -- John Berryman

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 26 April 2001
      ISBN-13 9780141184876
      978-0141184876
      ISBN-10 0141184876
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Saul Bellow''s Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction.

      Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of the modern age. In a crumbling house which he shares with rats, his head buzzing with ideas, he writes frantic, unsent letters to friends and enemies, colleagues and famous people, the living and the dead, revealing the spectacular workings of his labyrinthine mind and the innermost secrets of his troubled heart.

      This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury

      ''Spectacular ... surely Bellow''s greatest novel''
      Malcolm Bradbury

      ''A masterpiece ... Herzog''s voice, for all its wildness and strangeness and foolishness, is the voice of a civili

      Trade Review
      The character of Herzog is Bellow's grandest creation, and his mind is as rich as the mind of any character in American literature -- Philip Roth
      Spectacular ... surely Bellow's greatest novel -- Malcolm Bradbury
      A writer of genius * Sunday Times *
      Nobody else has ever sat down and wallowed to this extent in his own life, with full art -- John Berryman

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