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The Dean's December. After being widely portrayed as a virulent racist and a traitor to his city, Professor Albert Corde, dean of the faculty of Journalism, is forced to leave Chicago. Corde is ill-equipped to handle the outrage that faces him, both as the author of several articles on Chicago’s endemic corruption, and as an outspoken figure ...
THE DEAN ' S DECEMBER By Saul Bellow. 312 pp. New York: Harper & Row. $13.95. RIBULATIONS - passionately experienced and at the same time comic, even ridiculous - have beset (and occasionally overwhelmed) the protagonists of Saul Bellow 's novels since the far-off days of ''The Victim.''. Think of Augie March shipwrecked with a lunatic who ...
The Dean’s December is set in two contrasting major world cities: Chicago and Bucharest, Rumania. The former represents a troubled urban center of liberal, materialistic America. A city governed ...
11 de jan. de 1982 · There are two particularly striking passages in ''The Dean's December,'' Saul Bellow's ninth and latest novel, his first since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. In one of these ...
1 de jan. de 1982 · The Dean's December. Leather Bound – January 1, 1982. Albert Corde, dean of a Chicago college, is unprepared for the violent response to his expose of city corruption. Accused of betraying his city, as well as being a racist, he journeys to Bucharest, where his mother-in-law lies dying, only to find corruption rife in the Communist capital.
- Saul Bellow
It is not fair to discuss The Dean’s December only in terms of what “happens” in the book. It is a novel of ideas or, to be more exact, of speculations. The person who constantly speculates ...
In The Dean's December, Saul Bellow depicts the desperate situation of modern man, who is either enslaved by the totalitarianism of the Com- munist bloc or threatened by the drift toward social and spiritual anar- chy of "the Free World." Since Bellow believes that there is no hope for. the salvation of man in the East, his attention and ...
