Victims (collected Works of Saul Bellow)
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About This Novel
One of the representative works of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, it is a landmark work of American Jewish fiction. In a sense, we all seem to be "victims" of life, because life will never be what we want it to be... The story takes place in New York, the largest city in the United States, on a sultry midsummer. The protagonist, a Jewish young man, is under the tremendous pressure of modern urban life and powerlessly retreats into himself, trying to purify a spiritual morality from the ruthless material reality. The novel has a gloomy tone. Although it uses a third-person narrative technique, it is always the subjective perspective of the protagonist. What he sees and hears, his memories and thoughts, and his suffering, show an absurd and unreasonable modern world. "The Victim" is an excellent early work by Saul Bellow. It was published in 1947 and is known as "a milestone in American Jewish fiction." It is not only an allegorical novel against anti-Semitism, but also profoundly exposes the identity crisis and spiritual crisis of modern people.
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