Pifer contends that Bellow's fiction is radical. Going against the grain of contemporary culture and its secular pieties, the novelist undermines accepted notions of reality and challenges the "orthodoxies" created by materialist values and rationalist thought. Bellow's ten novels actually test the assumptions of traditional realism--the genre with which his fiction is usually identified.
- ISBN10 0812282035
- ISBN13 9780812282030
- Publish Date 1 March 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 1994
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 214
- Language English