Saul Bellow Remembered
by Maxine
On this Suday, June 10, Nobel Prize winning author Saul Bellow would have been 92. Born in Lachine, Canada, Bellow broke from the literati in writing picaresque novels like The Adventures of Augie Marsh in which the title character says about himself: "...I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent." Bellow glorified the urban anti-hero who questioned the morals of his society but like Herzog, one of his most lovable characters, with a humorous deadpan look at his own foibles.
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