Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Herzog: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), (Paperback)

from TheAmpersand

I think that "Herzog" is a fine novel, but I also think that it's a tough book to love, or even to like. I imagine that there are a lot of readers who aren't going to be too interested in exploring the myriad neuroses of a depressed, self-involved nearly broke middle-aged Jewish intellectual with...

from SeriousGrace

Moses Alkanan Herzog is a man experiencing a midlife crisis. His coping mechanism is to write letters in his head; if they make do it to paper, they are letters he most often does not mail. With each letter comes a flashback to a particular monumental time in Herzog's memory. Most of his reminisc...

from Randall.Hansen

It's hard to critique a classic, but I liken this work to Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye -- different generations, and about a decade apart, but both novels focus on the character (and character flaws) of the main character... in this book, Moses Herzog, a professor and PhD -- the only educated ...

from LostFrog

A brilliant and mad book, but that doesn't necessarily make for an entertaining read. It wasn't very captivating, but I do appreciate it, and it got me interested in Bellow's other works.

from ctpress

This is a very cerebral novel with a lot of references to important names of philosophy, politics, history and religion. The main character Herzog is in a deadlock in his life, twice divorced and drifting toward a total mental meltdown. The book follows him within a few days, but there are numero...