Date of Publication :16th October 2020
Abstract: A novel whose story expounds and explores a particular philosophy perspective on the world is called the novel of ideas. It is different from a novel with ideas. It requires a poise, a balance, and most of all an eclectic faith in the democracy of ideas. Once the novelist deserts this position, his novels have only one of two ways to go; they may become novels not of ideas but of persons; this seldom occurs because the conversation of a novelist of ideas is scarcely an aesthetic conversation. Or they may become essays almost purely, and the narrative itself a setting for the expostition rather than the dramatization of idea.
Reference :
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- Saul Bellow, ‘Dangling Man’ [Vanguard Press, New York, 1944]
- Saul Bellow, ‘Herzog’ [Viking Press, New York, 1964]
- Ibid.,
- Ibid.,
- Ibid.,
- P. Ellen, ‘Saul Bellow : Against the Grain’, [University of Pennsylania Press, Philadolphia, 1990]
- Saul Bellow, ‘Mr. Sammler’s Planet’, [Viking Press, New York, 1970]
- Saul Bellow, ‘Humboldst’s Gift’, [Viking Press, New York, 1975]
- Ibid.
- Ibid.,