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Humboldt's Gift is a 1975 novel by Canadian-American author Saul Bellow. It won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
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Humboldt’s Gift, novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1975. The novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1976, is a self-described “comic book about death” whose title character is modeled on the self-destructive lyric poet Delmore Schwartz.
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Jan 1, 1975 · Humboldt's Gift. Saul Bellow. 3.85. 9,558 ratings741 reviews. The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic book about death," whose title character is modeled on the self-destructive lyric poet Delmore Schwartz.
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At the time of Humboldt’s death, Charlie’s life is falling apart: his career is at a standstill, and he’s enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman, and involved with a neurotic Mafioso.
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At the time of Humboldt’s death, Charlie’s life is falling apart: his career is at a standstill, and he’s enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman, and...
In Humboldt’s Gift, the primary conflict is character versus society, in which Charlie struggles to free himself from the bonds of money, bad people, and material goods, all of which he is...
Complete summary of Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Humboldt's Gift.
