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Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.” It’s the “Call me Ishmael” of mid-20th-century American fiction. (For the record, Bellow was born in Canada.) Or it would be if Ishmael had been more like Tom Jones with a philosophical disposition. With this teeming book Bellow returned a Dickensian richness to the American novel. As he makes his way to a full brimming consciousness of himself, Augie careens himself through numberless occupations, and countless mentors and exemplars, all the while enchanting us with the slapdash American music of his voice.
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De avonturen van Augie March, Saul Bellow
- Language
- Released
- 1979
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- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Damaged
- Price
- €17.57
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- Language
- Dutch
- Authors
- Saul Bellow
- Publisher
- Agathon
- Released
- 1979
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 558
- ISBN10
- 9026957947
- ISBN13
- 9789026957949
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Adventure, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, USA, American Literature, 20th century, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age, Nobel prize, 1950s
- Description
- Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.” It’s the “Call me Ishmael” of mid-20th-century American fiction. (For the record, Bellow was born in Canada.) Or it would be if Ishmael had been more like Tom Jones with a philosophical disposition. With this teeming book Bellow returned a Dickensian richness to the American novel. As he makes his way to a full brimming consciousness of himself, Augie careens himself through numberless occupations, and countless mentors and exemplars, all the while enchanting us with the slapdash American music of his voice.