April 7, 5:05 p.m.: More on Bellow

Some thoughts on the Nobel Laureate.

By: Hank Kalet
   I mentioned a couple of days ago that I would come back to Saul Bellow, who died Tuesday at the age of 90.
   The best way to do that, I think, is to offer links to a couple of essays that have appeared in the last couple of days:
   On Slate, Christopher Hitchens writes of the Nobel Laureate’s legacy.
   On Open Democracy, Tom McBride writes of Bellow’s imaginative universe. From that essay: "As Hamlet said we defy augury, so does Saul Bellow defy category. Bellow once said that all of us are obliged to make difficult judgments about what it all means. It was, he said, both the price and the privilege of freedom."
   All I can add is, as Marv Albert might say, YESSSSSSSSSSSSS.