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Saul Bellow. Collected Stories.-

Publication: World Literature Today
Publication Date: 22-MAR-02 		Format: Online - approximately 1038 words
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Full Article Title: Saul Bellow. Collected Stories.-(book review)

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Janis Bellow, pref. New York. Viking 2001. xx + 442 pages. $30 ISBN 0-670-89486-9

THE COLLECTION CONTAINS thirteen stories originally published in various magazines (The New Yorker, Partisan Review) between 1951 and 1992. The volume title's reference to "stories" is somewhat misleading, since several selections such as "Him with His Foot in His Mouth" (1985) are more the length of nouvelles than of short stories. One critic comments ironically that "Bellow is such a brilliant writer that small helpings are insufficient." The adjective collected is also misleading, since the volume at hand is the third compendium of Bellow stories, having been preceded by Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968) and Hint with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984). Moreover, two of the texts in the present collection, "Leaving the Yellow House" and "Looking for Mr. Green," had already appeared in Mosby's Memoirs and in Him with His Foot in His Mouth, which...

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