This study of Saul Bellow, initially published in 1982, looks at this Nobel Prize-winning author as a leading figure in the development of contemporary fiction, one whose work has, however, been challenged by more experimental, âe~post-modernâe(tm) developments in the novel.

Bradbury draws attention to Bellowâe(tm)s comedy, his sense of contemporary history and its stresses and anxieties, his attempt to sustain an adequate concept of the individual and the power of the imagination in an age of overwhelming concepts and notions of âe~death of the subjectâe(tm). Above all, emphasis is placed on Bellowâe(tm)s contemporaneity and significance, his role in the contemporary possibilities of the novel.