They don’t say that about Idi Amin
Andrew O’Hagan: Bellow Whinges, 6 January 2011
Saul Bellow: Letters
edited by Benjamin Taylor.
Viking, 571 pp., $35, November 2010,978 0 670 02221 2 Show More
edited by Benjamin Taylor.
Viking, 571 pp., $35, November 2010,
“... in his own deepness, but a whiner, itching and scratching with agitation. He blames. And like Henderson he needs, he wants, he demands. All of this is fine in a person, and almost obligatory in a novel, but in a letter-writer it can be the ultimate in boring. I was one of those who would have said Bellow couldn’t be boring, but seasoned loyalty knows ... ”