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Mr Bellow's Planet.(Literature)(Saul Bellow)(Critical Essay)

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| June 01, 2005 | Morgan, Patrick | COPYRIGHT 2005 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WE ARE ALL propagators of modernity as well as its victims--it's not something outside us. To condemn it is to condemn ourselves. Saul Bellow did not condemn it; rather he revelled in it, but he was never an eager trendy and always exercised discrimination about the new. He gradually developed a critique of his times, but always from the inside. A rueful survivor, he was too wily to accept the kaleidoscopic chaos whirling about him.

In the late 1960s and the 1970s US society seemed to go mad--the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, the Newark and Watts riots, student invasions, anti-Vietnam protests, teach-ins, the great march on Washington, ...

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