ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1969
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Saul Bellow - Mosby`s Memoirs and Other Stories
Fawcett Crest, 1969
176 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Mosby’s Memoirs and Other StoriesLeaving the Yellow House (1957)
The Old System (1967)
Looking for Mr. Green (1951)
The Gonzaga Manuscripts (1954)
A Father-to-Be (1955)
Mosby’s Memoirs (1968)

In six darkly comic tales, Saul Bellow presents the human experience in all its preposterousness, poignancy, and pathos. In the title story, a professor well-known for his wit struggles to animate his memoirs as he teeters on the brink of despair; in “the old System,” a distinguished biochemist tries to find room in his life for love; and in “A Father to Be,” a man is startled to find himself seated next to his future adult son on a New York subway. The other stories, too, reflect Bellow’s special ability to depict men and women confronting, in highly idiosyncratic ways, the enigmas and oddities of existence.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

`Bellow`s compassionate and vibrant grasp of the human comedy, his philosophical breadth, and his technical skill have increasingly developed.... In these current stories, he has fulfilled the promise of his earlier work and has become one of the major figures of our contemporary literature.`
-BOOK WEEK
HATTIE valiantly assails the seasons (and the bottle) surrounded by the hostile desert in `Leaving the Yellow House.`
DR. BRAUN, distinguished biochemist, struggles to find a place in the scheme of things for two emotion-ally high-pitched cousins in `The Old System.`
GEORGE GREBE encounters a variety of obstacles while delivering relief checks to Negroes in `Looking for Mr. Green.`
CLARENCE FEILER collides with the unpredictable motives of his fellow men in his altruistic quest for `The Gonzaga Manuscripts.`
ROGIN, `A Father-to-Be` on his way to meet his fiancee, encounters his `middle-aged son` in the subway.
And MOSBY-wit, diplomat, professor at ease in Mexico, circles unerringly toward an inner abyss in `Mosby`s Memoirs.`
`EXTRAORDINARY.... they may well be masterpieces.`
-NEW REPUBLIC


Fiction, Short stories