The Bellarosa Connection (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novella
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, United States or Americans, 1980’s, Immigration or emigration, Jews or Jewish life, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Holocaust, Jewish, Israel or Israelis, Poland or Polish people, Theaters, Western Europe or western Europeans
- Locales: New York, Philadelphia, PA, Jerusalem, New Jersey
As Bellow had used the traditional, even old-fashioned narrative structure of the picaresque for his first major work, The Adventures of Augie March, so thirty years later the author shows his interest in more modern narrative forms. The Bellarosa Connection is an example of the so-called new journalism, in which real events and people are treated in broadly fictional ways. E. L. Doctorow, for example, had used such historical personalities as Harry Houdini, Henry Ford, and J. P. Morgan in the fictional tapestry of his Ragtime (1975).
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