The Washington Post, May 14th, 1997
THE ACTUAL By Saul Bellow Viking. 104 pp. $17.95 Saul Bellow, now in his early eighties, has reached what Harry Trellman, the narrator of "The Actual," calls " `the final years,' as biographers refer to them." This Trellman characterizes as "a period of `mature' acceptance, reconciliation, openhandedness, general amnesty." That is an apt, and surely deliberate, description of the mood that dominates Bellow's fiction of recent years. The edginess and crankiness of "The Dean's December" and "Mr. Sammler's Planet" are still in evidence, but the overall mood is more receptive to our individual an...
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