{"id":264877,"date":"2024-02-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-literary-arts-series-spotlights-novelist-saul-bellow\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:10:01","slug":"la-serie-de-artes-literarias-pone-el-foco-en-el-novelista-saul-bellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/la-serie-de-artes-literarias-pone-el-foco-en-el-novelista-saul-bellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Arts Series Spotlights Novelist Saul Bellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p class=\"prntac\"><i>USPS honors acclaimed chronicler of immigrant experience with new stamp<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">CHICAGO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 6, 2024<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212; Author <span class=\"xn-person\">Saul Bellow<\/span> was honored today with a new stamp, the 34th in the Postal Service&#8217;s Literary Arts series.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg8edcleft\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg8edcleft\" title=\"USPS Honors Acclaimed Chronicler of Immigrant Experience with New Stamp\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2334929\/SaulBellow2024_Single_v7_BV_v1.jpg\" alt=\"USPS Honors Acclaimed Chronicler of Immigrant Experience with New Stamp\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Bellow considered himself a historian of American identity, populating his books with dreamers and intellectuals searching for meaning in a materialistic, sometimes disorienting world. The subtle analysis of modern culture and immigrant experience woven through Bellow&#8217;s writings combined fierce social criticism with a comic gusto that drew in readers.<\/p>\n<p>Widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century, Bellow was the recipient of a record three National Book Awards, a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer Prize.<\/p>\n<p>The stamp features a portrait of the author with a <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> street scene in the background. He wears a fedora, white turtleneck and dark jacket. Behind him are skyscrapers, with the &#8220;L&#8221; train running between the buildings. The title &#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">Saul Bellow<\/span>&#8221; is in dark purple letters in the upper-right corner, with &#8220;Three Ounce&#8221; and &#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span>&#8221; appearing vertically along the left side.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Ethel Kessler<\/span>, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp, with original art by illustrator <span class=\"xn-person\">Joe Ciardiello<\/span> based on photographs from 1982. To keep the writer&#8217;s image as the focal point, the artist painted much of the background in neutral colors using a pale-yellow wash and some brownish-grays and a bit of purple.<\/p>\n<p>The words &#8220;THREE OUNCE&#8221; on this stamp indicate its usage value, meaning that it may be used on a mail piece weighing three ounces. Like a Forever\u00ae stamp, it will always be valid for the rate printed on it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Background<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Born <span class=\"xn-person\">Solomon Bellow<\/span> in <span class=\"xn-location\">Lachine, Quebec, Canada<\/span>, in 1915, he moved with his family to <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> in 1925, becoming part of the city&#8217;s vibrant immigrant Jewish community. An avid writer since childhood, Bellow graduated from <span class=\"xn-org\">Northwestern University<\/span> in 1937 with degrees in anthropology and sociology and moved to <span class=\"xn-location\">Wisconsin<\/span> to study further. However, he soon dropped out of college to focus on writing. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His first writing job was in <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> with the Works Progress Administration, where he was assigned to write biographies of Midwestern authors. Bellow began an unfinished novel in 1939, then in 1941, published his first short story, &#8220;Two Morning Monologues,&#8221; in Partisan Review. Two years later, he became a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Bellow considered his first two novels, &#8220;Dangling Man&#8221; (1944) and &#8220;The Victim&#8221; (1947), as his apprentice work. His third novel, &#8220;The Adventures of <span class=\"xn-person\">Augie March<\/span>&#8221; (1953), reached a wider audience and garnered a National Book Award. Set in <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span>, the story follows the progress of a poor Jewish youth as he tries to make sense of the modern world. Unlike the more controlled and conventionally literary style of his first two novels, &#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">Augie March<\/span>&#8221; is written in a freewheeling comic vernacular, mixing high and low culture, that is exemplified in the book&#8217;s famous opening line: &#8220;I am an American, <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> born \u2014 <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span>, that somber city \u2014 and go at things as I have taught myself, freestyle, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bellow would be associated with this style, which many regarded as groundbreaking, throughout his career. He would also be associated with Jewish identity, but although many of his characters were Jewish, he did not like being referred to as a &#8220;Jewish writer.&#8221; With his subtle analysis of modern culture and the immigrant experience, he considered himself a historian of the American identity. Many of his main characters were based on friends and family and indeed on himself and events in his own life. His novels feature bookish intellectuals and dreamers in search of meaning in a materialistic, sometimes disorienting world, which Bellow renders with comic gusto as well as fierce criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Bellow is the only author to date who has received the National Book Awards three times \u2014 for &#8220;The Adventures of <span class=\"xn-person\">Augie March<\/span>,&#8221; &#8220;Herzog &#8220;(1964) and &#8220;Mr. Sammler&#8217;s Planet&#8221; (1970). &#8220;Herzog&#8221; tells the story of the breakdown and recovery of a middle-age college professor. In &#8220;Mr. Sammler&#8217;s Planet,&#8221; a cultured Holocaust survivor struggles to preserve Old World values in an America he finds barbaric and threatening.<\/p>\n<p>More novels and other acclaimed writings were to come. In 1975, he penned the Pulitzer Prize-winning &#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">Humboldt&#8217;s<\/span> Gift&#8221; (1975), which offers a study of the relationship between art and power, spirit and matter, in modern America. He followed with the novels &#8220;The Dean&#8217;s December&#8221; (1982) and &#8220;More Die of Heartbreak&#8221; (1987), novellas like &#8220;A Theft&#8221; (1989), &#8220;The Bellarosa Connection&#8221; (1989) and &#8220;The Actual&#8221; (1997); and short story collections, plays and nonfiction books.<\/p>\n<p>In 1976, Bellow was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature &#8220;for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.&#8221; \u00a0The National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. government, was bestowed on him in 1988. In 1990, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Later in his career, Bellow combined writing with teaching at various universities, including the <span class=\"xn-org\">University of Chicago<\/span>, where he worked for more than 30 years; the <span class=\"xn-org\">University of Minnesota<\/span>; <span class=\"xn-org\">Princeton University<\/span>; <span class=\"xn-org\">Bard College<\/span>; <span class=\"xn-org\">New York University<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-org\">Boston University<\/span>. His final novel, &#8220;Ravelstein&#8221; (2000), written in his 80s, is the story of the relationship between a Bellow-like narrator and a larger-than-life university professor.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Saul Bellow<\/span> died on <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 5, 2005<\/span>, in <span class=\"xn-location\">Brookline, MA.<\/span> In his honor, PEN America, a literary organization championing free speech, biennially presents the PEN\/<span class=\"xn-person\">Saul Bellow<\/span> Award to an American author whose career achievements put them in the highest rank of American fiction writing.<\/p>\n<p><b>Postal Products<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the <i><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4085278-1&amp;h=529599521&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fgcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.usps.com%252Fstore%252Fhome%26data%3D05%257C02%257CMartha.S.Johnson%2540usps.gov%257Cae348888973a4e17d91508dc1dd7ed19%257Cf9aa5788eb334a498ad076101910cac3%257C0%257C0%257C638418060458956803%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C3000%257C%257C%257C%26sdata%3DTtRe5wfZPfTZtIk9QLnJYNU%252FaIIp4CPn87RDX9Tll7c%253D%26reserved%3D0&amp;a=Postal+Store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Postal Store<\/a><\/i>, by calling 844-737-7826 or at Post Office locations nationwide. 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