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Saul Bellow Against the Grain (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction)

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
1991
ISBN
9780812213690, 0812213696
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
44 kB (45454 bytes)
Series
Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
Pages
2\2
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

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.

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