The Victim, Saul Bellow
The Victim, Saul Bellow
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The Victim

Author: Saul Bellow

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/19/2012

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow, a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heatfilled vortex of New York City. Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wife away on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from a Gotham heat wave only to be accosted in the park by a downattheheels stranger who accuses Leventhal of ruining his life. Unable to shake the stranger, Leventhal is led by his own selfdoubts and suspicions into a nightmare of paranoia and fear.

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 robin on May 08, 2021

Guilt And Alienation In Post-War New York City In a Guggenheim Fellowship application in 1945, Saul Bellow described his then work-in-progress, "The Victim" as "a novel whose theme was guilt." He worked assiduously on this novel between 1945 - 1947 when it was published to poor sales. In 1952, a stag......more

Goodreads review by Jimmy on May 23, 2009

It's impossible to please everyone. Hopefully, there isn't a soul on this earth that doesn't realize that, even if it takes them a while to do so. An obsession with appeasing people in life is, in my opinion, one of the most vain and futile preoccupations that a person can have. For every individual......more

Goodreads review by Ivana on February 14, 2012

Who is the victim?...and of what?...even after having finished reading this novel I'm not sure. What I'm sure of is that it is a wonderful novel. I loved the complexity of the protagonist, and the ambiguity of it all...like in life, it's hard to figure out who is guilty and of what. In that sense t......more

Goodreads review by Cláudia on November 01, 2018

Mudei de 3 para 4 estrelas. O Leventhal continua a caminhar comigo. Isso deve querer dizer que me tinha enganado. É melhor - ou pior, pois as pessoas más também nos marcam - do que julguei no final da leitura. Isto das estrelas é um bocadinho injusto, não é?......more

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