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This book is edited by Benjamin Taylor, the editor of "The Letters of Bellow". It not only includes Bellow's famous prose, but also selects fifty-seven of his travel notes, book reviews, film reviews, interviews, speeches and memoirs. The writing spans more than half a century. We can read the creative trajectory of a writer who witnessed the second half of the twentieth century and documented the spiritual crisis experienced by Americans after the war. How to successfully break out of modern society, Bellow gave his own answer with his keen observation and thinking.

"The Adventures of Augie March" is Bellow's famous work and one of his most famous masterpieces. This 20th century "piscal novel" has a broad picture and many characters. It narrates the life path of the protagonist Auggie from the 1920s to the 1940s, and vividly artistically reproduces the social conditions and style of the times in the United States at that time. Auggie was born at the bottom of the industrial metropolis of Chicago, but he persisted in finding his own essence and freedom. However, after half a life of ups and downs and all the vicissitudes of life, he still failed to find his "essence". Despite this, in this battle between his own nature and his living environment, he was still a failed hero. As mentioned at the end, although Columbus was escorted back to his country in shackles, this does not prove that there is no America. The author Bellow is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the National Book Award three times, and the Pulitzer Prize once. The book won the National Book Award and is one of the 100 best English novels in Random House's "Modern Library".