Buchdetails
Beschreibung
Saul Bellow (1915-2005) és un dels grans referents de la narrativa nord-americana contemporània. Va néixer al Quebec, en el si d’una família jueva d’origen rus, que al cap d’uns quants anys es va traslladar a Chicago. És l’únic novel·lista que ha guanyat tres vegades el National Book Award (amb The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog i Mr. Sammler’s Planet). El 1976 va ser guardonat amb el Pulitzer per la novel·la El llegat de Humboldt, i aquell mateix any va rebre el Nobel de Literatura.
Bellow's second novel features Asa Leventhal, sub-editor of a trade magazine, and he is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy might be right. So when he meets a down-at-hell stranger in the park one day and finds himself being accused of ruining the man's life...well, he half-believes it. And because he half-believes it, he can't shake the man loose, can't stop himself being trapped in a mire of self-doubt, can't help becoming...a victim.
First published in the USA in 1947, and in the UK a year later. It first appeared in a Penguin edition in Britain in 1966.