Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

Humboldt's Gift is a 1975 novel by Saul Bellow, which won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. The novel, which Bellow intended to be a short story, is a roman à clef about Bellow's friendship with the poet Delmore Schwartz. It explores the changing relationship of art and power in a materialist America. This theme is addressed through the contrasting careers of two writers, Von Humboldt Fleisher (to some degree a version of Schwartz) and his protege Charlie Citrine (to some degree a version of Bellow himself).

The 308th greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Pulitzer Prize)
  2. - The New Lifetime Reading Plan (The New Lifetime Reading Plan)
  3. - Finest Works of Fiction (Martin Seymour-Smith and Editors)
  4. - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)

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Humboldt's Gift Hardcover 2556460 $39.99
Humboldt's Gift Mass Market Paperback 2971685 $1.48
Humboldt's Gift Hardcover 2769918 $45.00 $10.86
Humboldt's Gift Audio CD 6409757 $75.60 $602.61 2008
Bellow: Novels 1970-1982: Mr. Sammler's Planet / Humboldt's Gift / The Dean's December (Library of America) Hardcover 156122 $16.00 $52.24 2010
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El legado de Humboldt (Spanish Edition) Kindle Edition 1214374 $6.99 2011
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Humboldt's Gift Mass Market Paperback 8508407 $1.98
Humboldt's Gift (An Alison Press book) Hardcover 1800885 $55.62 $1.31 1975
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Novels 1970-1982: Mr. Sammler's Planet / Humboldt's Gift / the Dean's December (Library of America) by Saul Bellow (30-Sep-2010) Hardcover Unknown Binding 12678356 $100.85 $79.06 2010
Humboldt's Gift Hardcover 609490 $44.56 $1.60
Humboldt's Gift Audio CD 1296960 $29.40 $3,987.05
El legado de Humboldt/ Humboldt's Gift (Contemporanea) (Spanish Edition) Paperback 9674516 $13.87 $12.00 2006
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Humboldt's Gift (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) Mass Market Paperback 846561 $7.46 $0.01 1996
Humboldt's Gift Hardcover 1050167 $24.95 $0.01 1975
Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics) Revised Edition by Bellow, Saul (2008) Paperback 367356 $12.10 $3.93 2007
Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics) Paperback 230825 $10.11 $6.96 2008
Saul Bellow: Novels 1970-1982 (LOA #209): Mr. Sammler's Planet / Humboldt's Gift / The Dean's December (Library of America Saul Bellow Edition) Hardcover 1051493 $28.55 $14.67 2010