false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166479777m/11494.jpg 11494 22 Novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1975. The novel, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, is a self-described "comic book about death," whose title character is modeled on the self-destructive lyric poet Delmore Schwartz. Charlie Citrine, an intellectual, middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays, contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life: Von Humboldt Fleisher, a dead poet who had been his mentor, and Rinaldo Cantabile, a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt's existence. Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one's creative spirit. Rinaldo, Charlie's self-appointed financial adviser, has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit. At the novel's end, Charlie has managed to set his own course. 1644010 book 1975 Humboldt's Gift total:882|5:254|4:330|3:212|2:66|1:20| 882 3378 1519 72 5 3 false false Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Mon Sep 03 15:42:49 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 15:47:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Feb 03 09:29:13 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 20:41:06 -0800 2009
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un roman foarte bine scris, probabil cel mai bine scris roman pe care l-am citit in 2005, in ciuda subiectului extrem de americanesc.
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