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Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.〔(University of Chicago accolades – National Medal of Arts ). Retrieved 8 March 2008.〕 He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times〔 and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.〔 ("Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" ). National Book Foundation. Retrieved 12 March 2012.〕 In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 - Press Release )〕 His best-known works include ''The Adventures of Augie March,'' ''Henderson the Rain King'', ''Herzog'', ''Mr. Sammler's Planet'', ''Seize the Day'', ''Humboldt's Gift'' and ''Ravelstein''. Widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest authors, Bellow has had a "huge literary influence."〔( Obituary: Saul Bellow ) BBC News, Tuesday, 5 April 2005〕 Bellow said that of all his characters Eugene Henderson, of ''Henderson the Rain King'', was the one most like himself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The New York Times, Mel Gussow and Charles McGrath(), in ''Saul Bellow, Who Breathed Life into American Novel, Dies at 89." )〕 Bellow grew up as an insolent slum kid, a "thick-necked" rowdy, and an immigrant from Quebec. As Christopher Hitchens describes it, Bellow's fiction and principal characters reflect his own yearning for transcendence, a battle "to overcome not just ghetto conditions but also ghetto psychoses."〔(''Arguably: Essays'' ), Christopher Hitchens(), "Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator", Atlantic Books, 2011 ISBN 9780857892577〕〔("Jewish American titan from the ghetto" ) By Christopher Hitchens, 30 December 30, 2011〕 Bellow's protagonists, in one shape or another, all wrestle with what Corde (Albert Corde, the dean in "The Dean's December") called "the big-scale insanities of the 20th century." This transcendence of the "unutterably dismal" (a phrase from ''Dangling Man'') is achieved, if it can be achieved at all, through a "ferocious assimilation of learning" (Hitchens) and an emphasis on nobility. ==Biography== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saul Bellow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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