Bellow

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< You claimed that Bellow's alleged conservatism didn't "color his fiction". 
I can't agree with that, surely it would be hard to make that claim about any 
writer? In the case of Bellow though, it would be even harder. Look at Mr 
Samler's Planet for instance... >>

I assume, but correct me if I'm wrong, you're referring to what some have 
seen as covert racism or a narrow, conservative response to change and 
integration.

I don't agree with it.  Sammler is an elderly European Jew, living on the 
Upper West Side, disturbed by what he sees as a decline in civility and, to a 
degree, associating that with blacks.  I think that's true to the character he 
created, Sammler, and it would have been the worst sort of bow to political 
correctness to shy from it.

That said, you may have something entirely other in mind.