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title: "The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)"
brand: "saul bellow"
price: "KSh8702"
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reviews_count: 9
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# The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)

**Brand:** saul bellow
**Price:** KSh8702
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- **What is this?** The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) by saul bellow
- **How much does it cost?** KSh8702 with free shipping
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The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

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    OVERRATED.
  

*by B***U on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2023*

A struggle to complete, notwithstanding, the clever prose.  A defeatist attitude permeates throughout, reflected by the characters (excepting Augie's visually impaired mother and mentally disabled brother), whose goals are to defraud the underlying system via deceitful petty crimes, e.g., a collective victim mentality based upon distorted self-entitlement.  Augie's non-threatening demeanor becomes the focus of everyone's projections, including negative reactions, particularly from bullying authoritarian personalities. The ennui of a grey world devoid of honesty, integrity, character; rather, a materialistic environment of laziness, sloth, lies.  Augie's saving grace is his innate ability to discern the manipulations seeking to control  him -- he remains sweet, hence, likable -- his redeeming quality.  Thus, the tale is saved.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A great flawed English language work of literature. By Bookaholic
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 12, 2015*

Two lists of the 100 best books in the English language ninclude this book along with such heady  company as "Moby Dick," "Bleak House and "The Heart of Darkness." That said, I have decidedly mixed emotions concerning "The Adventures of Augie March." The book was a difficult and challlenging read. I am ever grateful for a tome which enhances my vocabulary with such word as copal, caracul and acedia. My take is the Bellow, at least in part, was deliberately showing off his knowledge of arcane mythological biblical, historical and mythological recondite allusions.It did keep me at Wikapedia. He referred to an Italian named lord who upon looking it up was a fictional character fabricated by Bellow to describe someone pompous and pretensious. What would have the reader done in the pre internet days? I could not fathom why Bellow shoehorned the Mexico trip into the narrative I found it so tedious that I left 2/3 of the way into Augie's journey.The dictionary definition of picaresque is "of or relating to an episodic style of fiction describing a rough, dishonest but appealing hero." Without a itdoubt this books encompasses this description. It paints a vivid picture of America notably but not limited to Chicago and Jewish live in the 1920s to 1940s.I especially like his writing style, often luminous but on occasion complicated to the point of being tortuous. Certtain passages paint a noteworthy word picture of various persons and events. Augie himself is a most engaging if flawed character. The rise and fall and rise and fall and once agin rise of his ever resourceful brother Simon is a superb character delineation worthy of the best such in literature.Despite the above cited faults or perhaps, in part because of them, and the demands of the reader "The Adventures of Augie March" deserves to be in the pantheon of great English language novels.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Oh look, a squirrel!
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 3, 2021*

Bipolar Bellow.  Just when you thought he had gotten the car back on the road he is off on another tangent into some obscure, archaic revelation that is supposed to somehow have something to do with the road trip on which he has embarked.  Twenty pages later, he is back to describing his original premise, undoubtedly happy with the confusion and smoke and mirrors he has created.  Just when you are about to give up, he comes back with beautiful, meaningful prose that keeps you with him on his erratic journey. Through Augie and Simon's stories we see the consequences of growing up poor and unloved.  Indecision and aggression, empathy and anger are the hallmarks of these brothers.  They are two sides of the same coin.Bellow is unquestionably brilliant.  The book was both tedious and wonderful, but I'm not sure it was worth the time and effort to take the ride with him.

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