Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988.

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Academia

@ The university, in a society ruled by public opinion, was to have been an island of intellectual freedom where all views were investigated without restriction. … But by consenting to play an active or “positive,” a participatory role in society, the university has become inundated and saturated with the backflow of society’s “problems.” Preoccupied with questions of Health, Sex, Race, War, academics make their reputations and their fortunes. … Any proposed reforms of liberal education which might bring the university into conflict with the whole of the U.S.A. are unthinkable. Increasingly, the people “inside” are identical in their appetites and motives with the people “outside” the university.
Saul Bellow, Introduction to The Closing of the American Mind (New York: 1988), p. 18

Goodness

@ Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Dangling Man (1944) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ISBN 0-140-18935-1], p. 84

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