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Authors: Saul Bellow

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Updike, John
 
The Upper Depths
(working title for
The Last Analysis
)
 
 
Vanguard Press
 
Vargas Llosa, Mario
 
Vermont residence
 
The Very Dark Trees
 
The Victim
(Bellow)
 
critiques of
 
dramatization of
 
financial failure of
 
Guggenheim fellowship application and
 
naturalism in
 
second draft of
 
Bellow’s evaluation of
 
Vidal, Gore
 
Vietnam War
 
Viking Press
 
advance installments
 
Bellow’s correspondence with Marshall Best
 
Bellow’s departure from
 
Bellow’s loyalty to
 
contracts for novels with
 
Monroe Engel and
 
publication of
Augie March
 
Village, Greenwich
 
Volkening, Henry
 
Augie March
discussions
 
becomes Bellow’s agent
 
Bellow’s fantasy story about F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
Bellow’s love for
 
Bellow’s recommendations of to other writers
 
complaints about Henle to
 
correspondence with
 
divorce from Anita
 
dramatization of
The Victim
and
 
editors and censorship of writing
 
progress reports on writing
 
publication of Bellow’s short stories
 
summer travels
 
writing and publication discussions
 
Voltaire
 
 
Wade, Grace
 
Wagner College
 
Walden, George
 
Walden, Sarah
 
Walker, Nancy
 
Wallach, Eli
 
Walsh, Chris
 
Walter, Anne Doubillon
 
Wanamaker, Sam
 
War and Peace
(Tolstoy)
 
Warren, Robert Penn (“Red”)
 
Bellow’s eulogy of
 
Bellow’s nomination for Nobel Prize
 
correspondence with
 
Eleanor Clark and
 
living in Manhattan
 
news of mutual friends
 
opinion of
The Victim
 
Warren, Rosanna
 
Warsaw Ghetto
 
Wasserman, Harriet
 
Waugh, Evelyn
 
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
 
Weidenfeld, George
 
Weingrod, Bracha
 
Weiss, Theodore
 
“The Wen” (play)
 
West, Anthony
 
“What Kind of Day Did You Have?” (story)
 
Wheelwright, Jeff
 
White, Katharine Sargent Angell
 
Wieseltier, Leon
 
Wilde, Oscar
 
Wilkins, Sophie
 
Willingham, Calder
 
Wilson, Edmund
 
“Winter in Tuscany” (article)
 
Winters, Shelley
 
wisdom
 
Wiseman, Joseph
 
Wisse, Ruth
 
Wolff, Kurt
 
women’s liberation
 
Wood, James
 
Woolf, Virginia
 
World Jewish Congress
 
world view
 
World War
 
“The Wrecker” (play)
 
writers
 
Alice Adams
 
Bernard Malamud
 
Cynthia Ozick
 
Harold Brodkey
 
imagination and
 
Jean Stafford
 
Martin Amis
 
Meyer Schapiro
 
motivations of
 
opinions of
 
Philip Roth
 
as prophets
 
Stanley Elkin
 
thoughts on being a writer
 
writers’ organizations, avoidance of
 
writing
 
arguments in
 
authenticity and
 
Bellow’s evaluation of
 
Bellow’s views on narrative
 
as business
 
cognitive writing
 
conformity as threat to
 
craft of
 
as cure for unhappiness
 
desire to write freely
 
“exposing the seeming” and
 
fatigue and
 
finding time for
 
growing confidence in
 
ideas as palpable element in
 
Old and New Testaments and
 
process of
 
reclaiming of unreality
 
rejection of
 
short stories turning into novels
 
sources of material for
 
Symbolist approach to
 
writer’s block
 
Wylie, Andrew
 
 
Yaddo (artists’ colony)
 
Yehoshua, A. B.
 
“The Yellow House” (story)
 
Yiddish
 
Yiddish Courier
 
Young, Kimball
 
Yugoslavia
 
 
Zeisler, Peter
 
“Zetland: By a Character Witness” (story)
 
Zionism
 
1
French: Nothing is simpler.
2
Yiddish: Bit by bit, he’s coming into his own.
3
French: nightmare
4
Yiddish: in a fugue state, spaced-out
5
Yiddish: in general
6
Spanish: fucking son of a bitch
7
French: Judge for yourself.
8
French, then Spanish: To hell with the Whit Burnetts and other little bitches. May you lose your pecker one bloody day, W[hit] B[urnett].
9
French: There’s life’s purpose.
10
Yiddish: He proposes to fix me up with his daughter.
11
German: brotherhood
12
Russian: Farewell.
13
Yiddish: pain or woe
14
Yiddish: story
15
French: punching bag; fall guy
16
Yiddish: Just imagine!
17
Hebrew: May the name be blotted out!
18
In
Macbeth,
when Banquo and Fleance are ambushed, Banquo holds off the assailants and cries, “Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! / Thou mayst revenge.”
19
Yiddish: It pleases me
20
Yiddish: pure, clean
21
Yiddish: Enough.
22
Yiddish: mental aggravation
23
Yiddish: problem or trouble
24
French: But let’s move on.
25
French: What are you up to? All’s well?
26
French: It’s rather funny, in a comic-operatic way.
27
French: the general level
28
French: I say it myself.
29
German: vanished, sunk without a trace
30
German: the damnable Cameroons; fig., the boondocks
31
French: lit., at the foot of the wall; impoverished, up against it
32
French: which pleases me very much
33
French: extravagantly
34
German: and so on
35
French: worthy, meritorious
36
Yiddish: happy
37
Yiddish: exile
38
French: One has no business complaining.
39
French: without knowing it
40
French: sculpted funereal figures, lying supine
41
French: So I shrug it off.
42
French: That’s not so serious.
43
Italian: What will we do?
44
French: What besides?
45
French: the roving eyes
46
Yiddish: bastard
47
Latin: I will not serve.
48
French: Beware!
49
Hebrew: holy man or righteous man
50
Spanish: penitential garment worn to the stake
51
French: wonderland
52
Yiddish: loser
53
lucky
54
French: well and good
55
French: profession
56
French: your addled friend
57
German: Don’t be scared.

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