Herzog

Saul Bellow · 1964 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Twice divorced and lately cuckolded by his closest friend, Moses Herzog retreats to a wrecked house in the Berkshires and writes letters. They go to his ex-wife, his analyst, his lawyer, Eisenhower, Nietzsche and the dead, and are never sent. Breakdown as brilliance.

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• responds to ↑ The Waste Land
  T. S. Eliot · 1922 CE · Poem

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