by Saul Bellow · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429747843
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«Ravelstein» is the novel by Saul Bellow, published by Edicions 62 in hardback (240 pages, in Catalan).
The novel focuses on the relationship between Abe Ravelstein, a charismatic university professor who has become rich thanks to an essay turned best seller, and Chick, his writer friend, who accepts the task of putting his life into writing. Through friendship and a trip to Paris, the narrative addresses death, philosophy and the meaning of life, in a homage inspired by the figure of Allan Bloom.
Catalan translation by Mercè Costa Clos. Number 392 of the El Balancí collection.
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.
