Saul Bellow Against the Grain

by Ellen Pifer

Book Overview

Pifer contends that Bellow's fiction is radical. Going against the grain of contemporary culture and its secular pieties, the novelist undermines accepted notions of reality and challenges the "orthodoxies" created by materialist values and rationalist thought. Bellow's ten novels actually test the assumptions of traditional realism-the genre with which his fiction is usually identified.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812282035
• ISBN13: 9780812282030
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"