Novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1975. The novel, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, is a self-described "comic book about death," whose title character is modeled on the self-destructive lyric poet Delmore Schwartz. Charlie Citrine, an intellectual, middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays, contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life: Von Humboldt Fleisher, a dead poet who had been his mentor, and Rinaldo Cantabile, a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt's existence. Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one's creative spirit. Rinaldo, Charlie's self-appointed financial adviser, has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit. At the novel's end, Charlie has managed to set his own course.
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Solomon Bellow
Nasceu no Canadá, em 1915. Filho de judeus emigrados de São Petersburgo e posteriormente radicados em Chicago, graduou-se com distinção em antropologia e sociologia pela Universidade Northwestern. Um dos mais importantes escritores norte-americanos do século XX, autor de catorze romances e novelas e de numerosos volumes de contos, Bellow recebeu o prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1976. Morreu em 2005, em Brookline, Massachussets.
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Montreal, Canadá