New Essays on Seize the Day

Book Overview

This book provides a multifaceted introduction to Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow's most widely read, respected, and taught work of fiction, Seize the Day. This tragi-comic story of one day in the life of an average man on the brink of failure and despair is a prime example of the Jewish novels of the 1950s. The essays in this volume examine the thematic, stylistic, and critical elements of Bellow's masterpiece and offer different approaches to how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521559022
• ISBN13: 9780521559027
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"