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Saul Bellow A ‘ MAY HIGH LIGHTS
Ravelstein (Viking £16.99) * 1k *
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LESLEY WATERS
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ICOOLER THAN CHILLIESI
7PM WEDNESDAY 24TH MAY
MARTIN AMIS
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S '8 II , f, t I. d d , ft ,' d nger f COiitinamg his highly popular au e ow 5 us nove In over a eca e IS 0 en in a o , disappearing beneath the knowledge that Ravelstein is a barely- 3 I N E disguised portrait of Bellow's late friend Allan Bloom - the charismatic conservative professor of political philosophy famous for his bestselling The Closing of the American Mind — who died in 1992. Further. the book is at least as much about its author, Bellow moving nakedly behind the narrator Chick to whom Abe Ravelstein. knowing i he is dying, has assigned the task of composing his memoir. Thus. even 3 5-3OPM TU ESDAY 30TH MAY if a reader knows little of Bloom, we are aware that Chick's precision ' snapshots of the terminal decline of his previous marriage and the E J A M I E O L l V E R new relationship taking its place are Bellow's own. While (tjhe igtzllects describe: in operatzzon -lt:ie'c<.>nversationsl ' will be Sigmug topics or “is “0..., book capture an I eas cata ogue - ensure ave s em IS never so e y a gawper's peek, though it is the beauty and fluid power of Bellow's I E O F E D C H E prose which really lifts the novel. This is a book about friendship and trying to describe that: in doing so it is also about memory and writing itself. Rather than biography, what Chick/Bellow charts is the time of cluttered recollection before he comes to write; rather than narrative push. there are drifts, threads
followed and dropped. the same thoughts returned to time and again L-l ' h in a mildly obsessive fashion. ‘ 9 I This is undeniably an old man's book - which is not the same as a s i l “
book for old men - about the century that has ended; Bellow's century. W 1 38A and America's. More than this, Rave/stein is a book about life, written 3 98 BUCHANT/Elfl EEZEIEggl—éggg) G . near death's shade, and valuable for that. (Damien Love) ' 8 t 1 1 ' M . t S t ,d . I Rave/stein is published on Thu 27 Apr. - Gm 0] O pmt' 90%? 0d O U' Oy’ 0m 0 pm on CW
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