by Saul Bellow · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429730586
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«El llegat de Humboldt» is the novel by Saul Bellow published by Edicions 62 in paperback (464 pages, in Catalan).
The novel narrates the friendship between the poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young intellectual marked by literature. Over the years, Humboldt falls into failure while Charlie, an established writer, struggles between success and his vocation. An unexpected legacy allows him to reconcile with his past.
Volume 42 of the collection 'Les millors obres de la literatura universal. Segle XX'. The original work is 'Humboldt's Gift' (1975), translated into Catalan by Jordi Arbonès i Montull.
A read for those interested in literary fiction and in the narrative of Saul Bellow, a work awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1976.
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.
