299 __ $aRavelstein : [novel]
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200 __ $aRavelstein $bCarte tipărită $e[novel] $fSaul Bellow
700 _0 $aBellow, Saul
010 __ $a9780141188850
035 __ $a821.111(73)-31/ B43
675 __ $a821.111(73)-31
675 __ $a082.1Penguin Modern Classics
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686 __ $aLS
608 __ $amonografie
606 __ $alit. amer. - roman
101 __ $aeng
210 __ $d2008 $eSt Ives $aLondon $gClays, Elcograf $cPenguin Books
215 __ $a234 p.
225 __ $aPenguin Modern Classics
330 __ $aAbe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies. Deeply insightful and always moving, Saul Bellow's heartfelt novel is a journey through love and memory. It is brave, dark, and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well (or badly) lived.