The Critical Response to Saul Bellow

The reviews and essays gathered in this volume bring into focus the different concerns and critical approaches to reading Saul Bellow over the last 50 years. The volume covers Bellow's entire career, from the late 1940s into the 1990s. Representative samples from the earliest responses to the most recent critical assessments allow the reader to view the different phases and approaches to Bellow's art over time.