To Jerusalem And Back: A Personal Account
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the winter of 1975, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow made a journey to Israel — a land suspended between ancient faith and modern warfare — and returned with one of the most searching personal accounts of a nation under siege ever written. To Jerusalem and Back chronicles his weeks in Jerusalem, where he moved among poets, politicians, soldiers, and scholars, absorbing the anxieties and aspirations of a society living perpetually on the edge of annihilation. With the novelist's precision and the intellectual's hunger, Bellow presents a portrait of Israel that is at once intimate and geopolitical, threading his own emotional responses through the vast, intractable arguments of the Middle East. Bellow writes with the moral seriousness and fierce curiosity that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, the same year this work was published — and To Jerusalem and Back stands as a testament to his conviction that the literary imagination must grapple with history's most urgent crises. The book argues, with quiet but devastating force, that the fate of Israel is inseparable from the fate of Western civilisation itself. Rich in conversation, dense with ideas borrowed from the thinkers Bellow encountered, it leaves the reader with a single, unshakeable question: in a world of competing narratives and ancient grievances, who bears witness — and to what end?
Author: Saul Bellow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Avon Book
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the winter of 1975, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow made a journey to Israel — a land suspended between ancient faith and modern warfare — and returned with one of the most searching personal accounts of a nation under siege ever written. To Jerusalem and Back chronicles his weeks in Jerusalem, where he moved among poets, politicians, soldiers, and scholars, absorbing the anxieties and aspirations of a society living perpetually on the edge of annihilation. With the novelist's precision and the intellectual's hunger, Bellow presents a portrait of Israel that is at once intimate and geopolitical, threading his own emotional responses through the vast, intractable arguments of the Middle East. Bellow writes with the moral seriousness and fierce curiosity that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, the same year this work was published — and To Jerusalem and Back stands as a testament to his conviction that the literary imagination must grapple with history's most urgent crises. The book argues, with quiet but devastating force, that the fate of Israel is inseparable from the fate of Western civilisation itself. Rich in conversation, dense with ideas borrowed from the thinkers Bellow encountered, it leaves the reader with a single, unshakeable question: in a world of competing narratives and ancient grievances, who bears witness — and to what end?