![]() In this final novel, Bellow “ennobled Bloom,” and Mikics shows how Bellow turned Bloom’s combination of high-culture ideas and rumpled, professorial attitudes into one of the most memorable literary characters of the past 50 years. ![]() Sammler’s Planet, but perhaps the clearest case of a character stepping from reality into fiction is Allen Bloom becoming the eponymous protagonist of Ravelstein. Bellow used aspects of his close friend Edward Shils in his works, most prominently in Mr. Likewise, Bellow’s transformation of poet Delmore Schwartz into the character Von Humboldt Fleisher of Humboldt’s Gift relies on Schwartz’s writing as much as his forceful personality. ![]() Mikics illuminates Bellow’s sometimes misunderstood relationship with Ralph Ellison and uses textual examples to show how each writer encouraged and influenced the other. Morrie effectively abandons Saul, but Saul cannot resist trying to make sense of his brother through fiction. The story begins with Morrie Bellow, Saul’s volatile older brother and father figure. In this novel approach to author Saul Bellow’s work, Mikics ( Slow Reading in a Hurried Age) centers his study of influence and literary criticism around some of the key figures in the Nobel laureate’s life.
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