
Ravelstein
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Narrated by:
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Richard Poe
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By:
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Saul Bellow
Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent Midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously - and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas that sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein’s own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire.
Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies.
Deeply insightful and always moving, Saul Bellow’s new novel is a journey through love and memory. It is brave, dark, and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well (or badly) lived.
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While I was reading this book, even at the end, I did not feel this was the best of Bellow - there was really no storyline. Yet, as time went by, the novel, particularly the two friends, Bloom and Bellow, suck with me. The humorous juxtaposition of the brilliant Bellow with the astoundingly brilliant Bloom, along with the American Jewish mystic does make this a Bellow classic.
The narrator was up to these challenging prose.
Grew on me after finishing
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Through Ravelstein we learn about life, legacy, death, sickness, pleasure, and money, without ever noticing.
A wonderful portrait of a human being
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A great book
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1. Book was essentally a take-down of a brilliant man (Alan Bloom) that said little of the ideas that drove him and substituted a torrent of meaningless trivia about his life (his shoes, suits, food preferences and worse).
2. Book threw in just about everything negative about bloom that was possible, depicting him as a pompous eccentric. Look at Bloom's lectures on youtube or read The Closing of the American Mind and see he is anything but this.
3. Book needlessly brings in Bloom's sex life- ironic in that the author's might be considered more of a topic of note.
4. Book has occaisonal insightful quips, but these are few and far between.
5. If book were not by a famous author no one would have paid any attention to it.
With friends like this..who needs enemies
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wrong Saul
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