by Saul Bellow · Aims Intl Books Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401421327
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«El legado de Humboldt» is the novel by Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize winner 1976, published in 1996 by Plaza & Janés in paperback (571 pages, in Spanish).
Charlie Citrine, a writer immersed in a personal and professional crisis, recalls his friendship with the poet Von Humboldt Fleisher, a brilliant but failed man who died ruined. The legacy Humboldt leaves him, and dealings with an underworld figure, lead Citrine to question the meaning of art, friendship and success.
The novel was originally published as «Humboldt's Gift»; the Spanish translation is by Montserrat Solanas and the edition belongs to the El ave Fénix collection (no. 32).
For adult audiences and literary fiction readers interested in stories about writers, friendship and the meaning of art.
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.
