Saul Bellow R.I.P.

[Monroe, Dave]

The novelist Thomas Pynchon -- who won the same award for his third novel 20
years later -- later wrote of Bellow's liberating influence on a whole
generation of writers: 

"We were encouraged from many directions -- Kerouac and the Beat writers,
the diction of Saul Bellow in 'The Adventures of Augie March,' emerging
voices like those of Herbert Gold and Philip Roth -- to see how at least two
very distinct kinds of English could be allowed in fiction to coexist.
Allowed! It was actually OK to write like this! Who knew?" ...


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/06/BELLOW.TMP

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