A masterful twist on the epistolary novel, Saul Bellow's Herzog is part
confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern
fiction. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm
Bradbury in Penguin Modern Classics. Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His
formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is
left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a
survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of
the modern age. In a crumbling house which he shares with rats, his head
buzzing with ideas, he writes frantic, unsent letters to friends and
enemies, colleagues and famous people, the living and the dead, revealing
the spectacular workings of his labyrinthine mind and the innermost secrets
of his troubled heart. Saul Bellow (1915-2005) was a Canadian-born American
writer who enjoyed a dazzling career as a novelist, marked with numerous
literary prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for
Literature. His books include The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, More
Die of Heartbreak, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, Mr. Sammler's Planet,
Seize The Day and The Victim. If you enjoyed Herzog, you might like
Bellow's Seize the Day, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'Spectacular ... surely Bellow's greatest novel'Malcolm Bradbury 'A
masterpiece ... Herzog's voice, for all its wildness and strangeness and
foolishness, is the voice of a civilization, our civilization'The New York
Times Book Review