- Ravelstein (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback) - Saul Bellow.
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Over many pages he chooses to download a highly desultory accumulation of incidents and insights, often repetitive. Entertaining as it all is, what, the reader keeping asking rather impatiently, is Bellow getting it? Does he know, does he care? Bellow reminds us, again and again, that no writer can attempt to examine a life in the modern world, Ravelstein being prime example, without ultimately dealing with the Jewish question in the 20th Century.
If so many Jews died, then what is the meaning of death? Many strange unexpected insights occur: That's only half of it.
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Much more is put on the table. It is a sumptuous meal. This is a book about how to die without giving up. The Ravelstein of the title is the flamboyant political philosophy and classics professor Allan Bloom, who before dying of AIDS in tasked his friend Saul Bellow to write a memoir about their friendship. What Bellow finally wrote was a novel where only the names were changed to protect the innocent or protect Bellow from legal actions.
Ravelstein is an entertaining meditation on dying without surrendering. Bloom, who had recently become rich and famous as the author of The Closing of the American Mind, was dying in a way that a writer of lesser talents than Bellow might have turned into a maudlin tragedy.
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But Bellow saw the book and the life as a triumph of Bloom being Bloom: Fancy dinners, designer clothes, luxury apartments in Chicago and Paris. It was a dream come true. Then the raging AIDS epidemic of the late s took it all away.
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