Dangling Man, Saul Bellow
Dangling Man, Saul Bellow
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Dangling Man

Author: Saul Bellow

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 6 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/20/2011

Synopsis

An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow Expecting to be inducted into the army during World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mixups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Written in diary format, Bellows first novel documents Josephs psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.

About Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (1915–2005), author of numerous novels, novellas, and stories, was the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards. He also received the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict, Bellow served as a war correspondent for Newsday. He taught at New York University, Princeton, and the University of Minnesota and was chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valeriu on May 13, 2024

Un individ încă tînăr, Joseph, vrea să scape de povara de a alege și de obligația de a-și justifica existența. Refuză să fie „condamnat la libertate”, cu formula lui Sartre. În consecință, s-a înscris în Armată (cu A mare în original), dar birocrația cazonă îl pune să aștepte mai bine de 6 luni. Ace......more

Goodreads review by robin on May 08, 2021

Difficult Freedom Saul Bellow's short and first published novel "Dangling Man" (1944) explores broad themes of community and alienation in the words of a self-centered young man awaiting induction into the Army in 1942-43 during WW II. The book sold poorly but it established Bellow as a writer of pro......more

Goodreads review by Mevsim on October 20, 2017

Beklemenin ve boşluğun insanı bir elektrikli süpürge gibi vakumlayıp sorgulama girdabına çektiğini ve sonunda posasını çıkarıp torbaya tıktığını sade bir dille anlatan kitap. Sorgulama döneminde okununca çok iyi gelmiyor efendim. Bir yandan da tam da o boşlukta sallanılan dönemde net anlaşılan bir a......more

Goodreads review by Joselito Honestly on June 05, 2010

The thousands of my fans here at goodreads.com must know by now that I spent a great part of my childhood and early teen years in an island facing the Pacific Ocean (see my review of "Timbuktu" by Paul Auster). when I was around ten years old, a word was invented there, most likely by a close relati......more

Goodreads review by Matthew Ted on August 19, 2023

106th book of 2023. 3.5. Surprisingly good. I've read Bellow before (The Victim) but can't remember much of it, so clearly it didn't leave a lasting impression. I've been a Dangling Man myself: before my current job I struck a bout of laziness, self-loathing and driving to work with apathy bordering......more

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