Humboldt's Gift Study Guide consists of approx. 103 pages of summaries and analysis on Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow. Browse the literature study guide below:
Humboldt's Gift is a slice-of-life novel with undertones of dark comedy. From the perspective of Charlie Citrine, a poet and essayist of considerable success, it examines life in America from the 1930s through the mid-1970s. Much of the novel consists of Charlie's memories of his childhood in Chicago and his days in Greenwich Village with his mentor, Von Humboldt Fleischer, who has already descended into madness and death at the time of the telling. Charlie is driven throughout the novel by memories and recriminations of Humboldt. Saul Bellow is generally recognized as one of the great 20th Century American writers and won the Nobel Prize for literature for this work. (
read more)
Section 1, Through p. 34 Section 2, Through p. 63 Section 3, Through p. 106 Section 4, Through p. 146 Section 5, Through p. 169 Section 6, Through p. 187 Section 7, Through p. 228 Section 8, Through p. 236 Section 9, Through p. 264 Section 10, Through p. 290 Section 11, Through p. 325 Section 12, Through p. 342 Section 13, Through p. 345 Section 14, Through p. 376 Section 15, Through p. 401 Section 16, Through p. 433 Section 17, Through p. 458, Section 18, Through p. 487
Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our Humboldt's Gift Access Pass.