Incipit:
If I'm crazy for me to be well, thought Moses Herzog . There was the people who thought it was touched, and for a time even he had doubted. But now, although it continues to behave a bit 'weird, felt full of confidence, cheerful, bright and strong. He seemed to be bewitched, and wrote letters to the most unexpected people. He was so infatuated by the correspondence, since the end of June, wherever he went, trailing behind a suitcase full of papers. He had scope in that case, from New York to Martha's Vineyard. But Martha's Vineyard was riscappato back immediately and two days later he flew to Chicago, from Chicago and was spun into a small town in western Massachusetts. There, hidden in the field, wrote like crazy, frantically, journalists, public figures, friends and family and ended up writing to the dead as well, prior to his death, and even to the dead celebrities.
I really struggled to read this book, but I did. It 's a book full of ruminations of the main character Moses Herzog, who lives a life crisis, following the breakup of his second marriage to Madeleine, who prefers his friend Valentine. Herzog reacts to this crisis by writing letters to everyone, but it is long and heavy ruminations difficult to read. Just these letters, in my view, represent The most tedious part of the book. Some interesting pages here and there, especially when Bellow (Herzog) tells the story of the family of Jewish origin, came from Russia, first in the difficult introduction to the United States and Canada. It follows a Jewish-American environment, and Herzog is a typical intellectual, a bit 'frustrated. I remember the figure of the "trombone", typical of the Italian Academy, but here it is a "trombone", without an audience, or with a very limited audience, as opposed to "trombone" Italians, who are in need of public and power.
Even the final pages in which Herzog spends some time with his little daughter and is involved in an accident and arrested by police for possession of a gun, are interesting and exciting, but the overall balance of a negative opinion. Too bad!
