by Saul Bellow · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401302022
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«El legado de Humboldt» is the novel by Saul Bellow, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (435 pages, in Spanish).
Charles Citrine, an established writer, recalls his friendship with the late poet Von Humboldt Fleisher, his mentor, while dealing with the mobster Rinaldo Cantabile. The novel contrasts artistic idealism with the pursuit of profit and addresses ambition, mortality, and intellectual life in the United States.
Translation by Montserrat Solanas of the original «Humboldt's Gift», published in 1975. Saul Bellow received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, as indicated on the cover.
Work of interest to readers of literary fiction, twentieth-century American classics, and portraits of intellectual life.
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
