The Adventures of Augie March (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1953
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: Values, Crime or criminals, 1940’s, Antiheroes, 1920’s, 1930’s, Chicago, Jews or Jewish life, Theft, Wealth, Materialism
- Locales: Mexico, Paris, France, Chicago, IL, Buffalo, NY
The Work
The Adventures of Augie March is an autobiographical Bildungsroman covering a Jewish American’s struggle to find himself, through trial and error, from the 1920’s through the 1940’s. Saul Bellow’s hero-narrator Augie March is bewildered by the freedom and opportunities available to Jews in America after centuries of persecution and segregation in other lands.
Augie is a resilient but not a strongly motivated character. Not knowing what he wants, he allows himself to be misguided by a succession of domineering personalities, beginning with...
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