Dangling Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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In the grey, cigarette-smoke-filled purgatory of wartime Chicago, a young man named Joseph waits — suspended between the life he once knew and the army that has yet to claim him. Dangling Man, Saul Bellow's debut novel, chronicles the inner life of a man rendered purposeless by bureaucratic delay, who turns to a private journal to map the slow disintegration of his will, his relationships, and his sense of self. Written in the form of a diary, this taut and psychologically intense novel captures the existential paralysis of a man caught between two worlds, with a raw, unflinching honesty that prefigures decades of literary introspection. Bellow's prose is precise and intellectually restless, weaving philosophical inquiry into the fabric of everyday frustration, loneliness, and alienation — themes that would come to define his celebrated career and earn him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Dangling Man stands as a foundational text of American existentialist fiction, drawing inevitable comparisons to Dostoevsky's underground man while remaining distinctly and urgently American in its anxieties. Compact yet profound, it leaves the reader asking a deeply unsettling question: when all obligation is stripped away, what does freedom actually feel like?
Author: Saul Bellow
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the grey, cigarette-smoke-filled purgatory of wartime Chicago, a young man named Joseph waits — suspended between the life he once knew and the army that has yet to claim him. Dangling Man, Saul Bellow's debut novel, chronicles the inner life of a man rendered purposeless by bureaucratic delay, who turns to a private journal to map the slow disintegration of his will, his relationships, and his sense of self. Written in the form of a diary, this taut and psychologically intense novel captures the existential paralysis of a man caught between two worlds, with a raw, unflinching honesty that prefigures decades of literary introspection. Bellow's prose is precise and intellectually restless, weaving philosophical inquiry into the fabric of everyday frustration, loneliness, and alienation — themes that would come to define his celebrated career and earn him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Dangling Man stands as a foundational text of American existentialist fiction, drawing inevitable comparisons to Dostoevsky's underground man while remaining distinctly and urgently American in its anxieties. Compact yet profound, it leaves the reader asking a deeply unsettling question: when all obligation is stripped away, what does freedom actually feel like?