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Ravelstein is Saul Bellow's final novel. Published in 2000, when Bellow was eighty-five years old, it tells the tale of a friendship between two university professors and the complications that animate their erotic attachments well into old age. The...


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Perspectives on Political Science
Ravelstein: introduction.
01/01/2003: 941 words, approx. 3 pages
In 1960 Allan Bloom published an essay on Shakespeare's Othello in the American Political Science Review. It led to an exchange on the question of whether political theorists could learn from or had anything to contribute to the study of poetry. Bloom argued...
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Midstream
Ravelstein. (book review)
05/01/2000: 1,625 words, approx. 5 pages
Ravelstein, by Saul Bellow. New York: Viking, 2000, 224 pp., $24.95. Watch out! This review isn't going to be particularly objective. I've read every word that Saul Bellow has written (and some that he hasn't), and I admire him as one of...
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The New York Observer
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
4/10/2005: 1,698 words, approx. 6 pages
Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate and dean of Jewish-American fiction, passed away on Tuesday, April 5. He was 89. Bellow, in such novels as Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Mr. Sammler's Planet and, more recently, Ravelstein, examined the persistent anxieties of...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David K. Nichols
7,673 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Nichols deems Ravelstein a book about ideas, contending that “the biggest mistake that reviewers make is their failure to appreciate both the political and intellectual weight” of the novel.
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Critical Essay by Michael Davis
5,381 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Davis discusses Ravelstein as a comic tragedy.
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Critical Review by Christopher Hitchens
4,054 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following review, Hitchens provides a thematic analysis of Ravelstein and calls the book “a novelistic and realistic memoir” of the late author Allan Bloom.
 


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