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The Adventures of Augie March is a picaresque novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1953 by Viking Press. It features the eponymous Augie March, who grows up during the Great Depression, and it is an example of Bildungsroman, tracing the development of an individual through a series of encounters, occupations and relationships from boyhood to ...
- Saul Bellow
- 1953
The title of Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March evokes Huckleberry Finn, and the voice that tells it—like the one Mark Twain created for Huck—is alive with the energies of speech. From the outset, Augie March grabs our ear and yanks it exuberantly.
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Oct 3, 2006 · One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. “The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further.” —Martin Amis. A Penguin Classic. As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic.
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Jul 21, 2010 · The Adventures Of Augie March. Kindle Edition. The great novel of the American dream, of “the universal eligibility to be noble,” Saul Bellow’s third book charts the picaresque journey of one schemer, chancer, romantic, and holy fool: Augie March.
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The Adventures of Augie March, novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1953. It is a picaresque story of a poor Jewish youth from Chicago, his progress, sometimes highly comic, through the world of the 20th century, and his attempts to make sense of it. The book won the National Book Award for fiction.
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Much of The Adventures of Augie March takes place during the Great Depression, but far from being a chronicle of deprivation, the first of Saul Bellow’s string of masterpieces testifies to the explosive richness of life when it is lived at high risk and in tumultuous social circumstances.
The Adventures of Augie March by Canadian-American author Saul Bellow is a coming-of-age novel published in 1953. The novel is told in an episodic style, following the growth from childhood into adult life of the eponymous Augie.
