Essays Tagged: "Citrine"

Humboldt's Gift: Hope, History and Humanism

with acute sensitivity, the overall vision of the novel is darkly comic as the protagonist Charles Citrine becomes the hapless victim struggling through a series of farcical events that strip him of ... in the way his life is pieced together and reconstructed through the fragmentary memory of Charlie Citrine. As a successful author in his mid-fifties, Citrine has much in common with Bellow himself a ...

(6 pages) 23 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American