American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1521 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Saul Bellow and *The Adventures of Augie March*
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The idea
Bellow was born in Canada, raised in Chicago, of Russian-Jewish background, and studied anthropology and sociology. The witness describes the nineteen fifty-three novel as the study of an urban entrepreneur like Huckleberry Finn who becomes a black marketeer in Europe, told by an energetic first-person narrator.
In practice
An urban Huck Finn with a voice.
Where people slip
The earliest novels are grimmer than this.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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