{"id":85942,"date":"2015-05-20T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T21:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=85942"},"modified":"2015-05-20T17:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T21:35:35","slug":"saul-bellow-at-the-92nd-st-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/saul-bellow-at-the-92nd-st-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Saul Bellow at the 92nd St Y"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85943\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/saul-bellow-backstage-october-1988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85943\" class=\"wp-image-85943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/saul-bellow-backstage-october-1988.jpg\" alt=\"Saul Bellow backstage -- October 1988\" width=\"600\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/saul-bellow-backstage-october-1988.jpg 609w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/saul-bellow-backstage-october-1988-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saul Bellow backstage at the Poetry Center, 1988. Photo: Nancy Crampton, courtesy of 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201c<a title=\"75 at 75\" href=\"http:\/\/92yondemand.org\/Topic\/poetry-center-online\/\" target=\"_blank\">75 at 75<\/a>,\u201d a special project from the 92nd Street Y in celebration of the Unterberg Poetry Center\u2019s seventy-fifth anniversary, invites contemporary authors to listen to a recording from the Poetry Center\u2019s archive and write a personal response. Here, Norman Rush reflects on Saul Bellow, who read from<\/em> Humboldt\u2019s Gift\u00a0<em>and <\/em>Henderson the Rain King<em> on October 10, 1988.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.92y.org\/Event\/Saul-Bellow-at-100\" target=\"_blank\">92Y will celebrate Bellow\u2019s centenary tomorrow evening<\/a>. Martin Amis, Janis Bellow, Jeffrey Eugenides, Nicole Krauss, Zachary Leader, and Ian McEwan will read from <\/em>The Adventures of Augie March<em>, <\/em>Henderson the Rain King<em>, <\/em>Herzog<em>, \u201cSomething to Remember Me By,\u201d <\/em>Humboldt\u2019s Gift<em>, and <\/em>The Dean\u2019s December<em>. <br \/><\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/206432547&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u2019t heard Saul Bellow read from his works until recently, when I was given this recording. A surprise for me was that there was no surprise in Bellow, the man, reading. He was exactly the quick, rueful, ironical, winsome, laid-back, <em>Olympian-but-fighting-it<\/em> character the alter egos who had starred so prominently in his novels had prepared me to expect. His casual responses in the Q &amp; A were in the same vein, and also a pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Saul Bellow, throughout his career, got away with something big, in my opinion. Across the span of his best novels, he found ways to participate in the discourse which has been at the heart of the great novels since Darwin. That is, the discourse about how one should live, how one should apprehend the world. Resourceful, he deployed the picaresque, adventure stories, op\u00e9ra bouffe, tales of domestic disorder and betrayal, travelogues\u2014an array of different armatures to support the intellectual portraiture he was producing from book to book. And he was the man to do it! He had been, in terms of credal allegiances or attachments, <em>everything<\/em>. One of his earliest publications was in the anarchist periodical <em>Retort<\/em>. Later, he was a Trotskyist. For a time, he was a follower of Wilhelm Reich. Ultimately, he was a hard-shell neocon and an anthroposophist. Perhaps no American author has managed so brilliantly as Bellow to communicate the nuances, the dialectics, of this all-important discourse about the meaning of the world and ways of living in it. Of course, it\u2019s the discourse more than the conclusions that count. And the digressions, the hesitations, the intellectual false dawns, the desperate thrusts at truth, are rich and will live.<\/p>\n<p>On this recording, Bellow reads from <em>Henderson the Rain King<\/em>, whose main character it\u2019s been said he most closely identified with and whose story is a parable of looking for wisdom in really unlikely places\u2014in Henderson\u2019s case, the folk-belief systems of traditional Africa. It\u2019s hard to resist the feeling that this is a self-conscious metaphor for Bellow\u2019s own project or quest.<\/p>\n<p>But it is in his reading from <em>Humboldt\u2019s Gift<\/em>, which\u00a0precedes the reading from <em>Henderson the Rain King<\/em>, that he perfectly captures and epitomizes the discontents of his intelligent heroes\u2014at not getting it right. In not finding ways to embody their passions for justice and beauty in forms solid enough to obstruct the flow of the world toward cheapness and deceit. The author\u2019s raconteurial late style reaches its peaks, I think, in the huge, sprawling, self-indulgent character studies in <em>Humboldt\u2019s Gift<\/em> and later, finally, in <em>Ravelstein<\/em>. Bellow\u2019s gift is to have located Humboldt\u2019s effort and failure securely within the context of the human comedy writ large. What an achievement!<\/p>\n<p><em>Norman Rush\u2019s latest novel is <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781400042500\" target=\"_blank\">Subtle Bodies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85944\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/saul-bellow-at-podium-ii-oct-1988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85944\" class=\"wp-image-85944\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/saul-bellow-at-podium-ii-oct-1988.jpg\" alt=\"Saul Bellow at podium II --- Oct 1988\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/saul-bellow-at-podium-ii-oct-1988.jpg 793w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/saul-bellow-at-podium-ii-oct-1988-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bellow at the podium. Photo: Nancy Crampton, courtesy of 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c75 at 75,\u201d a special project from the 92nd Street Y in celebration of the Unterberg Poetry Center\u2019s seventy-fifth anniversary, invites contemporary authors to listen to a recording from the Poetry Center\u2019s archive and write a personal response. 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