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RAVELSTEIN

Encouraged by his friend, Chick, to write down his ideas about humankind, university professor Abe Ravelstein receives unexpected acclaim and bounty and invites Chick to join in his success, a situation that sparks a philosophical journey for both.

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  • ""In time for the centennial of his birth, the Noble Prize winner's moving final novel Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow's moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of whom is succumbing to AIDS, as they share thoughts on philosophy and history, loves and friends, mortality and art. This Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Viking's first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction by Gary Shteyngart, it rounds out the entirety of Bellow's major works in Penguin Classics black spine"--"
  • "Encouraged by his friend, Chick, to write down his ideas about humankind, university professor Abe Ravelstein receives unexpected acclaim and bounty and invites Chick to join in his success, a situation that sparks a philosophical journey for both."@en
  • "Encouraged by his friend, Chick, to write down his ideas about humankind, university professor Abe Ravelstein receives unexpected acclaim and bounty and invites Chick to join his his success, a situation that sparks a philosophical journey for both."
  • "I am doing what I can with the facts. He lived by his ideas. His knowledge was real, and he could document it, chapter and verse. He was here to give aid, to clarify and move, and to make certain if he could that the greatness of human kind would not entirely evaporate in bourgeois well-being."
  • "Plus qu'un roman, il s'agit d'une biographie sur les dernières années du professeur Ravelstein. L'auteur retranscrit la conversation sous la forme d'un dialogue qui débat de politique, de libéralisme, de philosophie, d'art, de cuisine et de musique avec le sentiment de la mort omniprésent entre ces deux hommes."
  • "Mi-récit, mi-roman, le livre retrace l'amitié que le narrateur (Chick) a porté, sa vie durant, à Ravelstein, un personnage hors du commun, professeur à l'Université de Chicago (entre autres), mais aussi philosophe, dandy, ethnologue, qui se flatte d'avoir formé tous les hommes qui comptent dans le monde politique aux USA! Le livre de Bellow est le portrait saisissant d'un génie social et poétique, marginal tapi au cœur du monde, brillant, injuste, colérique, irrésistible. C'est aussi une manière de testament puisque Ravelstein, ami intime de Chick, lui demande d'écrire sur lui, comme Socrate a besoin de Platon pour immortaliser ses paroles. Un voyage dans le temps, ainsi qu'un hymne à l'amitié et à la vie."

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