There Is Simply Too Much To Think About by Saul Bellow (9780670016693)

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One of the supreme fiction writers of the twentieth century, Nobel laureate Saul Bellow was also deeply insightful in his lesser-known roles as essayist, critic and lecturer. Gathered together in this stunning new compilation, Bellow's vast range of nonfiction reveals the same wit, daring and wisdom that distinguish The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift and other masterly novels. In There Is Simply Too Much to Think About, as in the novels, the twentieth century comes fiercely to life through Bellow's unrivalled human understanding and singular style. Benjamin Taylor, editor of the acclaimed Saul Bellow- Letters, joins Bellow's better-known essays to previously uncollected works selected from his criticism, interviews, speeches and other reflections. This collection brings together writing from every phase of the career. There Is Simply Too Much to Think About is a guided tour of the twentieth century - what we have done, suffered, survived - conducted by one of modern life's most inspiring minds. 'Rare are the novelists who write nonfiction comparable in strength to their fiction. Now that the bulk of his nonfiction has been drawn together from where the pieces first appeared separately, one sees that, like Henry James and John Updike, the great Saul Bellow was no less a master of the one genre than the other. This book overwhelms one like any artistic treasure newly discovered. When it came to wondrous lucidity in the service of an uncanny literary empathy - to a steady downpour of intelligence - to a direct contact with reality - to a sensibility attuned to the contradictions and incongruities - he was unrivalled. Like the book of Bellow's correspondence collected several years back by Benjamin Taylor - the same intrepid editor who is the harvester here - There Is Simply Too Much to Think About further extends our sense of Bellow's extremely humane way of experiencing books, people, events and places, One witnesses his excited mind, in a molten state, running over.' Philip Roth

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