Herzog - Saul Bellow
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Literature
Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins, Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend., Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both the internal life of its eponymous hero and the complexity of modern consciousness., Like the protagonists of most of Bellows novelsDangling Man, The Victim, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King etcHerzog is a man seeking balance, trying to regain a foothold on his life., Thrown out of his ex-wifes house, he retreats to his abandoned home in Ludeyville, a remote village in the Berkshire mountains to which Herzog had previously moved his wife and friends., Here amid the dust and vermin of the disused house, Herzog begins scribbling letters to family, friends, lovers, colleagues, enemies, dead philosophers, ex-Presidentsanyone with whom he feels compelled to set the record straight., The letters, we learn, are n
