Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie March" and Its Picaresque Antecedents
โ Scribed by Philip O. Gericke
- Book ID
- 124468705
- Publisher
- The Pennsylvania State University Press
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 668 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0078-7469
- DOI
- 10.2307/1316807
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As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this gem by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Bold, expansive, and keenly humorous, _The Adventures of Augie March_ blends street language with literary elegance to tell the story of a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depressio
Kindle Edition, 546 pages Published 1953 Penguin Modern Classics National Book Award for Fiction (1954) Augie March is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A 'born recruit', he latches on to a wild succession of occupations, then proudly rejects each one as too limiting.
As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this gem by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Bold, expansive, and keenly humorous, _The Adventures of Augie March_ blends street language with literary elegance to tell the story of a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depressio