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Dangling Man (Penguin Modern Classics)
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bookshelves: 20th-century, lit-american, read-2023, 1001-list-2006-ed
Aug 19, 2023
bookshelves: 20th-century, lit-american, read-2023, 1001-list-2006-ed
106th book of 2023.
3.5. Surprisingly good. I've read Bellow before (The Victim) but can't remember much of it, so clearly it didn't leave a lasting impression. I've been a Dangling Man myself: before my current job I struck a bout of laziness, self-loathing and driving to work with apathy bordering hatred. Bellow's 'hero' is waiting to be drafted into the army: he's in Chicago purgatory, the in-between. Most days he sits, reads the papers, smokes. Wanders. A plotless novel by any measure but enjoyable for the narrative voice, a book as journal-entries. Joseph dangling drives him insane. It has echoes of something like Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground. A sorry ass wondering where he fits in the world. Purpose is vital to life. A loveable bastard and from what I've read, the precursor to Bellow's later, Herzog. Well, that now impatiently waits for me as I dangle in-between Bellow books.
3.5. Surprisingly good. I've read Bellow before (The Victim) but can't remember much of it, so clearly it didn't leave a lasting impression. I've been a Dangling Man myself: before my current job I struck a bout of laziness, self-loathing and driving to work with apathy bordering hatred. Bellow's 'hero' is waiting to be drafted into the army: he's in Chicago purgatory, the in-between. Most days he sits, reads the papers, smokes. Wanders. A plotless novel by any measure but enjoyable for the narrative voice, a book as journal-entries. Joseph dangling drives him insane. It has echoes of something like Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground. A sorry ass wondering where he fits in the world. Purpose is vital to life. A loveable bastard and from what I've read, the precursor to Bellow's later, Herzog. Well, that now impatiently waits for me as I dangle in-between Bellow books.
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Aug 19, 2023 06:02PM
You have to read Augie March! A bit longer, but a real treat as a Great American Novel contender.
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Gregory wrote: "You have to read Augie March! A bit longer, but a real treat as a Great American Novel contender."That's the other Bellow book I own alongside Herzog, so that works nicely.
