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April 07, 2005
Saul of Chicago
Ian McEwan attempts an explaination of why so many of his fellow British novelists revere Saul Bellow, the great Midwestern writer who died this week.
What is it we find in him that we cannot find here, among our own? I think what we admire is the generous inclusiveness of the work - not since the 19th century has a writer been able to render a whole society, without condescension or self-conscious social anthropology. Seamlessly, Bellow can move between the poor and their mean streets, and the power elites of university and government, the privileged dreamer with the "deep-sea thought". His work is the embodiment of an American vision of plurality.
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