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Unrevised proof of Bellow's Pulitzer Prize novel

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 4

Unrevised proof of Bellow's Pulitzer Prize novel

Schätzpreis
400 $ - 600 $
Zuschlagspreis:
250 $
Beschreibung:

530 pp. Original yellow wrappers. The text of this unrevised proof differs in important respects from the text as finally published in the finished book, including being 43 pages shorter. Humboldt's Gift won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. Saul Bellow and his girlfriend Sondra Tschacbasov, who became his second wife, were close to the American poel Delmore Schwartz and Schwartz's wife, Elizabeth Pollet. They shared many famously wild times and memorable literary parties together in the 1950s. Bellow had been impressed by Schwartz's long poem "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" when it was published in the Partisan review in 1937. Along with many others, Bellow considered it a masterpiece. Schwartz arranged for Bellow and himself to teach for a year at Princeton University in 1952-53, a financial lifesaver for both. Even then Schwartz was beginning to sink into alcoholism and madness. Some years later in New York, Bellow saw his old friend wandering on 46th Street disheveled, possibly homeless, eating a pretzel from a paper bag. To his everlasting regred, Bellow turned away, ducked behind a car, and ignored Schwartz, something that haunted him for years. Schwartz died in 1966. To memorialize him, perhaps to atone for that moment when he turned away from his friend, and because Bellow's novels grew unabashed from his life, Bellow wrote Humboldt's Gift. Bellow was Charlie Citrine, Schwartz was Von Humboldt Fleisher and Elizabeth Pollet was Kathleen.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 4
Auktion:
Datum:
05.08.2021
Auktionshaus:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

530 pp. Original yellow wrappers. The text of this unrevised proof differs in important respects from the text as finally published in the finished book, including being 43 pages shorter. Humboldt's Gift won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. Saul Bellow and his girlfriend Sondra Tschacbasov, who became his second wife, were close to the American poel Delmore Schwartz and Schwartz's wife, Elizabeth Pollet. They shared many famously wild times and memorable literary parties together in the 1950s. Bellow had been impressed by Schwartz's long poem "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" when it was published in the Partisan review in 1937. Along with many others, Bellow considered it a masterpiece. Schwartz arranged for Bellow and himself to teach for a year at Princeton University in 1952-53, a financial lifesaver for both. Even then Schwartz was beginning to sink into alcoholism and madness. Some years later in New York, Bellow saw his old friend wandering on 46th Street disheveled, possibly homeless, eating a pretzel from a paper bag. To his everlasting regred, Bellow turned away, ducked behind a car, and ignored Schwartz, something that haunted him for years. Schwartz died in 1966. To memorialize him, perhaps to atone for that moment when he turned away from his friend, and because Bellow's novels grew unabashed from his life, Bellow wrote Humboldt's Gift. Bellow was Charlie Citrine, Schwartz was Von Humboldt Fleisher and Elizabeth Pollet was Kathleen.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 4
Auktion:
Datum:
05.08.2021
Auktionshaus:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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