Saul Bellow

In our final lecture, Professor Wisse takes up one of the most decorated novelists in American history: Saul Bellow. Early in his career, Bellow was concerned with whether it was possible for a Jew be a transmitter of American culture; by the end of it, he himself had become perhaps the foremost guardian of that culture. In his writing about Jewish and American life, Bellow gave voice to his great love affair with America, is dangers, and its possibilities.