Saul Bellow
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Bellow’s plans to meet with
discussion of reviews of their writing
discussion of The Victim with
discussions of politics and revolution
mutual friend Margaret
opinion of Bellow’s writing
Paris and France
reading, translating, and writing
remarks on Rome to
University of Minnesota
Beach, Joseph Warren
The Beacon
Begin, Menachim
Behrstock, Julian
Bellevue Hospital
Bellow, Adam (son)
affection for
college career of
conversations with
correspondence with
custody and parenting issues
infancy and childhood
visits with
Bellow, Alexandra Ionescu Tulcea
career in mathematics
divorce from
mentioned
Romanian family of
Bellow, Daniel (son)
affection for
bar mitzvah of
correspondence with
marriage of
mentioned
visits with
Bellow, Gregory (son)
childhood
college and
letter about alimony to
marriage of
mentioned
visits with
Bellow, Janis Freedman
doctoral studies of
marriage to
relationship with
Bellow, Maurice (brother)
Bellow, Naomi Rose (daughter)
Bellow, Sam (brother)
Bellow, Susan Glassman
alimony and child support issues
discussions of writing with
move to Chicago
relationship with
settlement payment
Belo, Abram (father)
arguments with
immigration and career of
money from
reaction to death of
relationship with
respect for
Belo, Liza (mother)
Bentley, Eric
Berghof, Herbert
Berlin, Isaiah
Bernick, Isadore
Berryman, John
alcoholism of
Bellow’s opinion of
children of
discussions of poetry and death
discussions of poetry and writing
friendship with
literary magazine work
suicide of
Berryman, Kate
Best, Marshall
bibliophilia
Billy Phelan (Kennedy)
Birstein, Ann
Blackmur, R.P.
Blake, William
Bloom, Allan
death of
friendship with
illness of
mentioned
Ravelstein and
teaching with
Bloom, Claire
Bloom, Harold
Blücher, Heinrich
Böll, Heinrich
Bollingen Prize for poetry
bolshevism
Borok, Dean
Boston University
Bostonia (journal)
Botsford, Keith
Bellow’s divorce from Sondra
Bellow’s opinion of
hip surgery of
news of family visits
sadness over Covici’s death
staying with in Puerto Rico
The Republic of Letters and
work on Anon with
work on The Noble Savage with
Botstein, Leon
Boyers, Robert
Bradley, Mrs. Wm. A.
Brandeis, Irma
Brandeis University
Breit, Harvey
Briggs-Copeland Fellowship
Brodie, Steve
Brodkey, Harold
Brogan, Denis
Browder, Earl
Brown, Huntington
Buckman, Gertrude
Burlingame, Edward
Burnett, Whit
Burnshaw, Stanley
Bush, George H. W.
“By the Rock Wall” (story)
“By the Saint Lawrence” (story)
Camus, Albert
Carter, Jimmy
Carver, Catharine (“Katie”) DeFrance
Case, James H., Jr.
A Case of Love (unfinished novel)
Catton, Bruce
Céline, L.-F.
censorship
The Century Association
Cermak, Anton
Chambers, Whittaker
Chapman, Chanler
Chapman, Sara S.
characters
in The Actual
Allbee in The Victim
basis in real people
Bummidge in The Last Analysis
Charlie Citrine in Humboldt’s Gift
development of
discussions about Augie March
discussions with Keith Opdahl about
Leventhal in The Victim
Chase, Richard V.
Cheever, John
Chiaromonte, Nicola (“Nick”)
Chicago
description of people in
memories of childhood in
opinions of
Susan moves to
winter weather
writers’ images of
Chilton, Nola
Choate, Catherine Lindsay
Circle in the Square production of The Last Analysis
citizenship
civilization
Clark, Eleanor
Cogan, Zita
cognitive writing
Cole, Toby
Collected Stories (Bellow)
Colt Press
comedy
advantages of comedic writing
as element of Henderson the Rain King
as element of More Die of Heartbreak
intent of Augie March and
Italian
The Upper Depths
wretchedness and comedic writing
writing comedic pieces
Commentary (journal)
Committee for the Free World
Committee on Social Thought
Communist Party, American
conferences, dislike of
Connolly, Cyril
Conrad, Joseph
conservatism
Corbin, Esther
Covici, Dorothy
Covici, Pascal (“Pat”)
becomes Bellow’s editor
Bellow’s divorce from Sondra
Bellow’s Israel trip
Bellow’s San Francisco trip
death of
Covici, Pascal (“Pat”) (cont.)
discussion of writing and Ford Foundation grant
discussions of speaking engagements and book sales
discussions of writing
mentioned
Cowley, Malcolm
The Crab and the Butterfly (Bellow)
craft of writing
Craft, Robert
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
criticism
Bellow’s criticisms of Jack Ludwig
Bellow’s critique of Elkin’s writing
dealing with
of Jerusalem book
Louis Simpson’s attack on Bellow
reading about himself and
of Whit Burnett
critics
Bellow’s note to Phillips
Bellow’s thoughts on
reviews of Augie March and
Crouch, Stanley
cultural understanding
cultural void
“Culture Now” essay
Cummings, E. E.
cynicism
Dajani, Virginia
Daley, Richard J.
Dangling Man (Bellow)
Dannhauser, Werne
r
darkness as literary theme
The Dean’s December (Bellow)
death
Debray, Régis
Decter, Midge
“Deep Readers of the World, Beware!” article
Demjanjuk, John
democracy
depression
destiny
distribution of books
diversity in storytelling
divorce
dogs
doing things out of sight
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Donadio, Candida
Donat, Alexander
“Dora” (story)
Dostoyevsky
draft deferments
dreams
“Dr.Pep” (story)
Dubin’s Lives (Malamud)
Dunsky-Shnay, Zipporah
earnestness
The Economist (journal)
egomania
Eisenhower, Dwight
Eliade, Mircea
Eliot, T. S.
Elkin, Stanley
Ellison, Fanny
Ellison, Ralph
Bellow solicits magazine submission from
Bellow’s divorce from Sondra
Bellow’s eulogy of
Bellow’s memories of
description of Puerto Rico
discussions of family and writing
discussions of health
Tivoli house and
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Encounter (journal)
Encyclopedia Britannica
enemies
Engel, Monroe
Bellow’s Guggenheim application and
Bellow’s letter from Paris
discussion of Isaac Rosenfeld
end of editorial relationship with Bellow
mentioned
reports on writing progress to
entropy
Epstein, Joseph
Epstein, Seymour
Erskine, Albert
Esquire
esthetics
Europe (Stern)
exile
“Expect the Vandals” (Roth)
Experience (Amis)
exposing the seeming, American literature and
Falconer (Cheever)
fame
Farago, Ladislas
Farrell, James T.
father, see Belo, Abram
fatigue
Faulkner, William
Fellini, Federico
Feltrinelli, Giangiacomo
Feltrinelli, Inge
festination
Fiedler, Leslie
First Loyalty (Lourie)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, fantasy story about
Flaubert, Gustave
fools
Ford Foundation grant
forgetfulness
Fowler, H. W.
France
Frankel, Max
Freedman, Janis, see Bellow, Janis Freedman
Freifeld, Rochelle
Freifeld, Samuel
discussion of exile
family troubles of
friendship with
hard work of
mentioned
postcards from Bellow
reaction to Augie March
Freud, Sigmund
friendships
appreciation for
with Barley Alison
with Catherine Lindsay Choate
discussions of with Fiedler
forced
with Harriet Wasserman
with Henry Volkening
loss of
maintaining
with Oscar Tarcov
rift with David Bazelon over Margaret
Fuchs, Daniel
Furet, François
Gallimard (French publisher)
Gallo, Louis
Gendlin, Frances
Gill, Brendan
Gillman, Mr.
Ginsberg, Allen
Ginsberg, Harvey
Glassman, Susan, see Bellow, Susan Glassman
Gloria Mundi (Clark)
Glotzer, Albert
Glück, Louise
God’s Grace (Malamud)
Godwin, Anthony
Gold, Herbert
Gold Medal for Fiction Award
Goldberg, Samuel S.
Bellow on divorce from Susan
Bellow on Seize the Day
bibliophilia of
friendship with
mentioned
owing money to
Goldenweiser, Alexander Alexandrovich
Goldknopf, David
Goldstein, Nathan
good intentions
Goodman, Paul
Gordimer, Nadine
Gordin, Karina
Goshkin, Anita (wife)
alimony and
Bellow’s divorce from
Bellow’s quarrels with
career of
desire to move to Europe
family troubles of
Northwestern University radicals and
opinion of Bellow’s writing
opinion of Melvin Tumin
Goshkin, Catherine
Gould, Nathan
Grass, Günter
Great Books Project
Great Jewish Short Stories
Greenberg, Clement
Greenberg, Willie
Greene, Graham
Greenwich Village
Grene, David
grief
Grimson, Todd
the grotesque