CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, June 22nd, 1998
Saul Bellow's 'More Die of Heartbreak' uses parody to explore the nature and effects of fashionable cynicism. The novel's characters struggle to authentically express lived experience and avoid the perennial skepticism of those around them. Although cynicism may reveal flaws in unquestioned conventions, it also may become a convention, leading to mundanities and disenchantment.
Saul Bellow's novel More Die of Heartbreak opens with the observation of its narrator Kenneth Trachtenberg that his maternal uncle Benn Crader is obsessed with a cartoon by Charles Addams, author of Monster Rally. The ...
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