#Audiblehas several #SaulBellow novels that are free (if you subscribe). I haven't read anything of his except high school or college freshman. He and #PhilipRoth were discussed and recommended in passing.

#ReadingRecommendations #JewishWriters #Literature #Fiction

VIDEO Prix de la Laïcité 2025. Pascal Bruckner, président du jury : "La religion et la spiritualité n'ont pas grand-chose à voir" (Prix de la Laïcité, 9 déc. 25)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://laicite-republique.org/video-prix-de-la-laicite-2025-pascal-bruckner-president-du-jury-la-religion-et.html

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗦𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 -

Bellow's tight narrative of modernist despair leaves us asking, when we have sacrificed family and love to the capitalist machine, what is left? And then, does it offer an answer?

https://youtu.be/T2W70IRgb1w

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Literarischer #10Juni

„Unsere Gesellschaft verkauft sich zunehmend an ein leichtgewichtiges Entertainment, das die gesamte Aufmerksamkeit monopolisiert.“

#SaulBellow Geburt 1915

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗦𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆” 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 -

Bellow's brief and incisive novel of a single day at the end of a series of "carpe diem" failures offers an ambiguous and elusive escape from tragedy; worth every moment of reflection on it.

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗦𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 -

Bellow's tight novel (perhaps novella) is an agonizing day of modern risk and failure, of sons failing fathers, of lifetimes wasted. Or maybe just one.

#alienation #existentialism #carpediem #jewishamericanliterature #saulbellow #seizetheday #modernism

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: "𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝑺𝒆𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒔 𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝑫𝒂𝒚" -

Sure we can philosophize, but what happens when we put carpe diem to the test in the modern world of capital?

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/bellow-seizes-our-day/

#podcast #saulbellow #seizetheday #carpediem #modernism #irony #tricksters #americandream #capitalism

𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

A few of the books I'm reading this month!

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Literarischer #5April

„Das Kind in mir ist entzückt, aber der Erwachsene in mir bleibt skeptisch.“

#SaulBellow #Nobelpreisrede Tod 2005