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31. Jan. 2008 · The Dean’s December is a more complicated read, long on meditative ruminations and short on action, with much of that related in conversations or letters, after the fact. That, however, takes nothing away from this novel. Some writers are sketchy and vague on description, letting the reader fill in the blanks. Some writers provide snapshots ...
- Saul Bellow
In The Dean's December, the contrasts are between the decaying society of late communist Rumania and the problems of society in contemporary Chicago. The Dean is in Rumania to be with his dying mother-in-law, a formerly powerful party official who has been ostracised for allowing her daughter, an internationally famous astronomer, to emigrate to the west.
31. März 2016 · The Dean’s December is a more complicated read, long on meditative ruminations and short on action, with much of that related in conversations or letters, after the fact. That, however, takes nothing away from this novel. Some writers are sketchy and vague on description, letting the reader fill in the blanks. Some writers provide snapshots ...
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The Dean's December. After being widely portrayed as a virulent racist and a traitor to his city, Professor Albert Corde, dean of the faculty of Journalism, is forced to leave Chicago. Corde is ill-equipped to handle the outrage that faces him, both as the author of several articles on Chicago’s endemic corruption, and as an outspoken figure ...
10. Nov. 2022 · The Deans December by Saul Bellow. Publication date 1982 Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-11-10 21:02:13 Autocrop_version 0 ...
After the mystical departures of Humboldt’s Gift, The Dean’s December may at first sight seem a novel in which Bellow returns to more familiar territory. Certainly it was with something like relief that many reviewers remarked this apparent reconciliation. Salman Rushdie confidently asserted that ‘like his dean, Bellow looks up to the stars with awe; but he knows the stars are not his ...
THE DEAN ' S DECEMBER By Saul Bellow. 312 pp. New York: Harper & Row. $13.95. RIBULATIONS - passionately experienced and at the same time comic, even ridiculous - have beset (and occasionally overwhelmed) the protagonists of Saul Bellow 's novels since the far-off days of ''The Victim.''. Think of Augie March shipwrecked with a lunatic who ...
