The Victim

10 hrs. 6 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Saul Bellow

Narrator Olga Chernova

Description

“A master of the short phrase and the large form…”—this is how Saul Bellow was described, repeatedly called the most significant English-language writer of the second half of the twentieth century. His talent was recognized with the highest literary award in the United States—the Pulitzer Prize—and the world’s highest literary prize, the Nobel Prize. In Vanity Fair it was rightly written: “Bellow is the most outstanding American prose writer alongside Faulkner.” Bellow’s second novel. Critics called it “the best English-language work of the 1940s” and compared it with the early works of Dostoevsky. At first, the story—a seemingly straightforward tale about an editor of a small New York magazine cheerfully plunging into bachelor freedom while his wife is away—soon turns into a startlingly powerful parable: a parable about personal self-expression and the complexity of the human soul, forever torn between lofty impulses and base passions…