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El Diciembre Del Decano

Name: El Diciembre Del Decano
Author: Saul Bellow
ISBN: 9788499895703

by Saul Bellow

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Overview

Albert Corde, decano de la facultad de periodismo de Chicago, no está preparado para la violenta respuesta social que han tenido sus artículos sobre la corrupción imperante en la ciudad o su enredo en el proceso contra dos negros sospechosos del asesinato de un estudiante blanco. Acusado de traicionar a su ciudad, de ser un loco incívico y un racista, durante un viaje que le lleva a Bucarest, donde su suegra agoniza, Corde no puede evitar establecer severas comparaciones entre la corrupción y la deshumanización de la tiranía comunista, y las putrefactas y abandonadas calles de Chicago. Mediante la yuxtaposición de diferentes acontecimientos -tanto públicos como privados- que se suceden simultáneamente en ambas ciudades, Bellow ilustra hábilmente cómo el remolino de fuerzas que sacude al hombre contemporáneo puede reunirse para provocar su fracaso.

Synopsis

Agudo, satírico, mordaz y gran analista de su tiempo, el Premio Nobel Saul Bellow analiza en esta obra las diferencias entre Oriente y Occidente.

Mediante la yuxtaposición de diferentes acontecimientos -tanto públicos como privados- que se suceden simultáneamente en ambas ciudades, Bellow ilustra hábilmente cómo el remolino de fuerzas que sacude al hombre contemporáneo puede reunirse para provocar su fracaso.

Reseña:
« El diciembre del decano contiene la oposición más enérgica de Bellow a las fuerzas que gobiernan nuestro tiempo.»
Malcom Bradbury

About the Author, Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

A literary giant, Saul Bellow loomed large over writers attempting the Great American Novel, since many would argue that he has already achieved this feat at least once over. He was considered a foremost chronicler of the Jewish-American post-war experience, but the "human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work" are what won him the Nobel, and helped him transcend cultural and national borders.

Biography

Praised for his vision, his ear for detail, his humor, and the masterful artistry of his prose, Saul Bellow was born of Russian Jewish parents in Lachine, Quebec in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. During the Second World War he served in the Merchant Marines.

His first two novels, Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947) are penetrating, Kafka-like psychological studies. In 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent two years in Paris and traveling in Europe, where he began his picaresque novel The Adventures of Augie March, which went on to win the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. His later books of fiction include Seize the Day (1956); Henderson the Rain King (1959); Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968); Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970); Humboldt's Gift (1975), which won the Pulitzer Prize; The Dean's December (1982); More Die of Heartbreak (1987);Theft (1988); The Bellarosa Connection (1989); The Actual (1996); and, most recently, Ravelstein (2000). Bellow has also produced a prolific amount of non-fiction, collected in To Jerusalem and Back, a personal and literary record of his sojourn in Israel during several months in 1975, and It All Adds Up, a collection of memoirs and essays.

Bellow's many awards included the International Literary Prize for Herzog, for which he became the first American to receive the prize; the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by France to non-citizens; the B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award for "excellence in Jewish Literature"; and America's Democratic Legacy Award of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the first time this award has been made to a literary personage. In 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work."

Bellow passed away on April 5, 2005 at the age of 89.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).