Letters (104 page)
Authors: Saul Bellow
Updike, John
The Upper Depths
(working title for
The Last Analysis
)
(working title for
The Last Analysis
)
Vanguard Press
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Vermont residence
The Very Dark Trees
The Victim
(Bellow)
(Bellow)
critiques of
dramatization of
financial failure of
Guggenheim fellowship application and
naturalism in
second draft of
Bellow’s evaluation of
Vidal, Gore
Vietnam War
Viking Press
advance installments
Bellow’s correspondence with Marshall Best
Bellow’s departure from
Bellow’s loyalty to
contracts for novels with
Monroe Engel and
publication of
Augie March
Augie March
Village, Greenwich
Volkening, Henry
Augie March
discussions
discussions
becomes Bellow’s agent
Bellow’s fantasy story about F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bellow’s love for
Bellow’s recommendations of to other writers
complaints about Henle to
correspondence with
divorce from Anita
dramatization of
The Victim
and
The Victim
and
editors and censorship of writing
progress reports on writing
publication of Bellow’s short stories
summer travels
writing and publication discussions
Voltaire
Wade, Grace
Wagner College
Walden, George
Walden, Sarah
Walker, Nancy
Wallach, Eli
Walsh, Chris
Walter, Anne Doubillon
Wanamaker, Sam
War and Peace
(Tolstoy)
(Tolstoy)
Warren, Robert Penn (“Red”)
Bellow’s eulogy of
Bellow’s nomination for Nobel Prize
correspondence with
Eleanor Clark and
living in Manhattan
news of mutual friends
opinion of
The Victim
The Victim
Warren, Rosanna
Warsaw Ghetto
Wasserman, Harriet
Waugh, Evelyn
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Weidenfeld, George
Weingrod, Bracha
Weiss, Theodore
“The Wen” (play)
West, Anthony
“What Kind of Day Did You Have?” (story)
Wheelwright, Jeff
White, Katharine Sargent Angell
Wieseltier, Leon
Wilde, Oscar
Wilkins, Sophie
Willingham, Calder
Wilson, Edmund
“Winter in Tuscany” (article)
Winters, Shelley
wisdom
Wiseman, Joseph
Wisse, Ruth
Wolff, Kurt
women’s liberation
Wood, James
Woolf, Virginia
World Jewish Congress
world view
World War
“The Wrecker” (play)
writers
Alice Adams
Bernard Malamud
Cynthia Ozick
Harold Brodkey
imagination and
Jean Stafford
Martin Amis
Meyer Schapiro
motivations of
opinions of
Philip Roth
as prophets
Stanley Elkin
thoughts on being a writer
writers’ organizations, avoidance of
writing
arguments in
authenticity and
Bellow’s evaluation of
Bellow’s views on narrative
as business
cognitive writing
conformity as threat to
craft of
as cure for unhappiness
desire to write freely
“exposing the seeming” and
fatigue and
finding time for
growing confidence in
ideas as palpable element in
Old and New Testaments and
process of
reclaiming of unreality
rejection of
short stories turning into novels
sources of material for
Symbolist approach to
writer’s block
Wylie, Andrew
Yaddo (artists’ colony)
Yehoshua, A. B.
“The Yellow House” (story)
Yiddish
Yiddish Courier
Young, Kimball
Yugoslavia
Zeisler, Peter
“Zetland: By a Character Witness” (story)
Zionism
1
French: Nothing is simpler.
2
Yiddish: Bit by bit, he’s coming into his own.
3
French: nightmare
4
Yiddish: in a fugue state, spaced-out
5
Yiddish: in general
6
Spanish: fucking son of a bitch
7
French: Judge for yourself.
8
French, then Spanish: To hell with the Whit Burnetts and other little bitches. May you lose your pecker one bloody day, W[hit] B[urnett].
9
French: There’s life’s purpose.
10
Yiddish: He proposes to fix me up with his daughter.
11
German: brotherhood
12
Russian: Farewell.
13
Yiddish: pain or woe
14
Yiddish: story
15
French: punching bag; fall guy
16
Yiddish: Just imagine!
17
Hebrew: May the name be blotted out!
18
In
Macbeth,
when Banquo and Fleance are ambushed, Banquo holds off the assailants and cries, “Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! / Thou mayst revenge.”
Macbeth,
when Banquo and Fleance are ambushed, Banquo holds off the assailants and cries, “Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! / Thou mayst revenge.”
19
Yiddish: It pleases me
20
Yiddish: pure, clean
21
Yiddish: Enough.
22
Yiddish: mental aggravation
23
Yiddish: problem or trouble
24
French: But let’s move on.
25
French: What are you up to? All’s well?
26
French: It’s rather funny, in a comic-operatic way.
27
French: the general level
28
French: I say it myself.
29
German: vanished, sunk without a trace
30
German: the damnable Cameroons; fig., the boondocks
31
French: lit., at the foot of the wall; impoverished, up against it
32
French: which pleases me very much
33
French: extravagantly
34
German: and so on
35
French: worthy, meritorious
36
Yiddish: happy
37
Yiddish: exile
38
French: One has no business complaining.
39
French: without knowing it
40
French: sculpted funereal figures, lying supine
41
French: So I shrug it off.
42
French: That’s not so serious.
43
Italian: What will we do?
44
French: What besides?
45
French: the roving eyes
46
Yiddish: bastard
47
Latin: I will not serve.
48
French: Beware!
49
Hebrew: holy man or righteous man
50
Spanish: penitential garment worn to the stake
51
French: wonderland
52
Yiddish: loser
53
lucky
54
French: well and good
55
French: profession
56
French: your addled friend
57
German: Don’t be scared.
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