[beppe]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

I respectfully do differ, Bellow, Cheever, Sacks - Who !?

oh, Geoff, it surprises me,

Even more respectfully I dare remind you that:
Saul Bellow,

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native of Lachine, P.Q. (that is Quebec) but for the great part of his life living in Chicago (by the way, I know that you do not share the view of other followers of Her Majesty that keep looking upon the "colonies" with the same down look of General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB, PC), where many of the Bauhaus architects and designers took refuge, thus contributing to the rise of the windy city to the fame of one of most elegant and architectural towns in the Northern Emisphere,

was insigned of the Nobel prize for literature in 1976 with this motivation:

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"exuberant ideas, flashing irony, hilarious comedy and burning compassion... the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age." His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift and Ravelstein. Widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest authors, Bellow has had a "huge literary influence."