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	Ravelstein
		Ravelstein when he was feeding and speaking made you feel that something biological was going on, that he was stoking his system and nourishing his ideas.
		Ravelstein's legacy to me was a subject—he thought he was giving me a subject, perhaps the best one I ever had, perhaps the only really important one.
		Ravelstein had a look of wild happiness, laughing and stammering, as he did when he was on a roll—beginning every clause in his long sentences with "Thee-ah, thee-ah, thee-ah this is the finest cuisine in Europe.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/bellow-ravelstein.html (6225 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Ravelstein
		Ravelstein (2000) is a memorial to the late Allan Bloom of the University of Chicago in which Bellow, posing as a Boswell, is writing a Johnsonian tribute to his late friend.
		Ravelstein is full of jokes, one-liners, and Catskill comedian gags which capture a distinctly first-generation Jewish American voice, wit, neuroses, manners, affectations, cultural collisions, and intellectual passions.
		Ravelstein has been called a biographical essay, a eulogy, a memoir, a threnody, a roman à clef, the chronicle of a friendship, a valediction, a Kaddish, a biography, and an, autoethnography.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13838 (538 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Ravelstein \| Saul Bellow
		Ravelstein tells Chick, "You must not be swallowed up by the history of your own time" and quotes Schiller's injunction to "Live with your century but do not be its creature" (p.
		Ravelstein combines a huge intellectual appetite for such thinkers as Socrates, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche with a taste for the finest clothes, cars, food, and other luxuries and a fondness for Michael Jordan and Mel Brooks.
		Ravelstein is deeply affected by Plato's idea that human beings are driven by the longing to regain a lost wholeness and seek, through romantic love, a partner to complete them.
	us.penguinclassics.com /static/rguides/us/ravelstein.html (756 words)

	Ravelstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abe Ravelstein is a parodox- the serious and mundane, the corporeal and spiritual, the conservative and radical.
		Ravelstein is not aloof or uninterested by the Martin Heidegger-like 'fallen-ness' of everyday life.
		Although the difference between the two is that Ravelstein would enthusiastically agree with being called a Renaissance man, and Chick would blush.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ravelstein (964 words)

	Ravelstein
		Ravelstein's precipitous decline is used as a background for musings about death, the nature of friendship, and being a Jew in the 20th century.
		Ravelstein is a worthy successor to Charlie Citrine and Herzog.
		Ravelstein believes nothing is more bourgeoise than the fear of death and that the essence of things is to be found only in the material world, which, in Ravelstein's view, can lead to philosophical knowledge as well as sensual pleasure.
	www.saulbellow.org /CriticismandReviews/Ravelstein.html (8924 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Ravelstein \| Saul Bellow
		Ravelstein tells Chick, "You must not be swallowed up by the history of your own time" and quotes Schiller's injunction to "Live with your century but do not be its creature" (p.
		Ravelstein combines a huge intellectual appetite for such thinkers as Socrates, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche with a taste for the finest clothes, cars, food, and other luxuries and a fondness for Michael Jordan and Mel Brooks.
		Ravelstein is deeply affected by Plato's idea that human beings are driven by the longing to regain a lost wholeness and seek, through romantic love, a partner to complete them.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/ravelstein.html (765 words)

	Amazon.ca: Penguin Classics Ravelstein: Books: Saul Bellow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ravelstein is a complex, gregarious fellow, and he feels that writing the memoir would "rescue" Chick from his "pernicious habits." Chick struggles with the notion of exactly what form the memoir should take, but ultimately, the book "Ravelstein" represents the memoir--and by extension Chick's relationship with his subject.
		Ravelstein has no family, but he is surrounded by people who are devoted to him--former students, various eccentrics, and of course Chick and his new wife, Rosamund.
		Ravelstein and Chick are the best of friends, and their relationship includes frank criticisms of each other's behaviour.
	www.amazon.ca /Penguin-Classics-Ravelstein-Saul-Bellow/dp/0141001763 (2394 words)

	Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
		Abe Ravelstein is a famously iconoclastic university professor who has died from AIDS; his close friend Chick is writing a memoir about him.
		As the story unfolds, we hear Ravelstein's (and Chick's) complex, challenging, often uproarious thoughts on mortality, history, art, sex, even vaudeville routines from the distant past.
		Deeply insightful and always moving, Ravelstein is an unforgettable journey through love and memory.
	www.highbridgeaudio.com /ravelstein.html (210 words)

	Amazon.com: Ravelstein: Books: Saul Bellow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Abe Ravelstein, a professor at a well-known Midwestern college, is obviously modeled on the late Allan Bloom.
		Chick's approach to Ravelstein is described as a "piecemeal method": the provision of an ever-expanding accumulation of interactions between and among the most important people in Ravelstein's life as well as their interactions with Ravelstein himself.
		Ravelstein the protagonist is described by the narrator 'Chick' as the former is residing in a Paris Hotel, ailing with HIV/AIDS; and from this starting point, we learn of the two...
	www.amazon.com /Ravelstein-Saul-Bellow/dp/067084134X (2481 words)

	Ravelstein - Saul Bellow
		When the bickering dies down and the smoke of recrimination clears, Ravelstein should emerge as the heartfelt masterpiece it assuredly is. Regardless of who Abe Ravelstein is modeled after, he is a fully realized character that lives on the page with the elan of a modern-day Dickens eccentric.
		Ravelstein, with his bald powerful head, was at ease with large statements, big issues, and famous men, with decades, eras, centuries.
		Ravelstein is diagnosed with HIV and his weakened immune system becomes increasingly susceptible to illness and infection.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/Ravelstein.htm (1186 words)

	Saul Bellow's Ravelstein
		Ravelstein, we are told, sought out the best pupils and taught them to 'forget their parents'.
		Ravelstein wanted each to be a 'tabula rasa', a blank slate onto which he could transfer his learning.
		Ravelstein is appalled and tells Chick that if he is to meet the Romanian again to think of the Jews they hung on meat hooks: "we must not turn our backs on the millions who died" he says.
	www.morose.fsnet.co.uk /reviews/ravelstein.htm (1889 words)

	Amazon.com: Ravelstein (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century): Books: Saul Bellow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		Ravelstein (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Paperback)
	www.amazon.com /Ravelstein-Penguin-Great-Books-Century/dp/0141001763 (2354 words)

	Write me up when I'm gone \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Ravelstein, whose hands tremble over small tasks with "a tremendous eager energy that shook him when it was discharged", tips the strongest French coffee down the most expensive jacket in Paris.
		"Ravelstein, with his bald, powerful head, was at ease with large statements, big issues and famous men, with decades, eras, centuries." An intellectual millionaire, enjoying the trappings of belated wealth, he is an overpowering presence, and a wrestler rather than a guru.
		Ravelstein is dying of Aids, but finding death "such a weird aphrodisiac"; still cruising, still paying off the rent boys.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,212844,00.html (883 words)

	RAVELSTEIN - Saul Bellow - Penguin UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Abe Ravelstein – ferocious intellectual, bestselling author, confidant of presidents and prime ministers and possessor of tastes that would bankrupt a king – is celebrating his success in Paris.
		But Ravelstein is dying and, in challenging Chick to record his life, he sets in motion their last great debate.
		Bellow's return, with Ravelstein, to an earlier, freer, more voice-driven exuberance is an astonishment to me. I have to keep reminding myself that the author was born, not in 1950, but in 1915.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140291551,00.html (667 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Review - Ravelstein
		It comes as a bit of a shock to discover that Ravelstein is seriously ill and dying.
		Ravelstein may possess little in the way of plot but it's one of Bellow's most engaging novels.
		It would have been easy to make Ravelstein a cartoon but instead he appears as a character that would have been at home in a work by Chaucer -- his vitality and generosity wouldn't be possible without his excesses.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-07-07/books_vsbr2.html (676 words)

	Life and Saul \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Ravelstein isn't linear enough to be the promised eulogy (six years after the death Chick has still to write it).
		What Ravelstein sought from Chick was a portrait, not an exposition or a critique, but the Bloomian repertoire of values and aphorisms ('American nihilism is nihilism without the abyss' being a fine example) necessarily features.
		The great service Ravelstein rendered his disciples, and also Chick, was to turn their faces 'again towards the original' in a world of secondhand responses, forcing them to reopen what they had closed.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,213085,00.html (1102 words)

	Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
		In "Ravelstein", Chick's ex-wife (Bellow is not kind to ex-wives) tries to get him to be frozen for a hundred years and thawed out when a cure for his illness is known, but he suspects her of selfish ends and refuses.
		Ravelstein taught that in the modern condition we are in a weak state.
		Ravelstein wants Chick to write his biography, knowing that if he does, it will be a work of fiction – and this book, "Ravelstein", is that biography.
	www.southerncrossreview.org /8/bellow.html (711 words)

	PENGUIN CLASSICS RAVELSTEIN - Saul Bellow - Penguin Books
		Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world.
		Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past.
		Ravelstein is an extraordinary character...it is hard not to feel privileged at being allowed a glimpse into a human connection as intimate and rewarding as this one.
	penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780141001760,00.html (6519 words)

	TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 14. Bloom in Love. Mark Greif. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ravelstein is a defense of elitism that makes this unfortunate slide to arrogance and tries to embody its argument in a single, irresistible person.
		Ravelstein is bent upon greatness, recklessly pursuing whatever is higher and better, with a perfect disregard for all that is small, inadequate, possessing no part of the eternal.
		Ravelstein's death is the salvation of Chick, who survives poisoning in order to write his friend's life.
	www.prospect.org /print/V11/14/greif-m.html (2791 words)

	Unraveling Bellow 's Ravelstein
		Ravelstein is a novel, but it is also a fictional biography, a friendly testament to Bellow's great friend, the great thinker, teacher and philosopher Allan Bloom, who passed away in 1992.
		Chip divorces his wife, marries one of Ravelstein's best pupils, and is only able to write the biography after a near-death experience due to a tropical illness.
		Saul Bellow himself had a bad bout with illness while he was writing Ravelstein, he said publicly that at some point he was 'nine-tenths gone' while trying to write the novel.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/literary_prize_winners/87368 (478 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Abe Ravelstein is a cranky philosopher whose best-selling philippic against the American university has, late in his career, made him a multi-millionaire.
		Ravelstein welcomes his discussions with Chick about the afterlife because he relishes debunking his friend's sentimentalities.
		Ravelstein's cries that "the man is a Hitlerite" turned out to be more humane than Chick's liberal rationalizations.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/26/story_2634_1.html (652 words)

	Canada Research Chair for Social Justice: Shadia B. Drury
		He describes Ravelstein as an eccentric with a large bald head and "erratic gestures," a slob who was "impatient with hygiene," and a rude ingrate who nevertheless loved elegance.
		Ravelstein was “earnest about this quest, driven by longing.” But he was also socially practical; he knew that marriages had to be concluded and the quest set aside.
		He tells us bluntly that Ravelstein was "destroyed by his reckless sex habits." But now that Ravelstein was so "fatally polluted," he could only think with longing of the "pretty boys in Paris." One cannot help but conclude that the Aristophanic sex myth was a fancy excuse for promiscuity.
	www.uregina.ca /arts/CRC/gurus.html (1108 words)

	Books: Half Nelson (The Boston Phoenix . 04-24-00)
		Ravelstein, Saul Bellow has made clear in at least one published interview, is a portrait of Bellow's friend and colleague Allan Bloom.
		What we get is Ravelstein's bald head described so that his skull, seat of his brain, is as memorable as his great height and the way his hands shake, charged with nervous energy.
		Ravelstein may want only the best of everything, but, Jewish, gay, politically contrarian, he is no crass materialist.
	weeklywire.com /ww/04-24-00/boston_books_1.html (830 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Ravelstein
		A brilliant thinker, Abe Ravelstein is a true original, who embraces life with equal measures of Dionysian and Apollonian gusto.
		When Chick discovers that Ravelstein is dying of AIDS, the urgency of the appeal to write a memoir plagues the novelist.
		Ravelstein shares similarities with Humboldt's Gift, particularly its freewheeling first person narrative, which avoids linear chronology and ricochets with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of intellectual ideas and cultural references.
	www.bookpage.com /0005bp/fiction/ravelstein.html (368 words)

	The Richmond Review, Book Review, Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
		The character Abe Ravelstein is more of a performance than Humboldt, who is a distant and haunting figure.
		Ravelstein is near to being a comic Jew, with mannerisms one step extended from the traditional Western images of Jewry.
		Since, as the narrator observes, it takes the genius of Capitalism to make his ideas a commodity, this is oddly in keeping with his effusive, huge, educated persona.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/ravelstein.html (640 words)

	The Voice of the Turtle
		With Ravelstein’s new- found wealth, there has come an awareness of his status as a point of view to be supported or attacked.
		Ravelstein’s life has been an attempt to bring people closer to this light, to think for themselves and locate their own place within this world.
		Ravelstein affirms the role in society of that most maligned of species – the intellectual.
	www.voiceoftheturtle.org /show_article.php?aid=163 (1512 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Ravelstein: A Writer's Soul
		But Ravelstein, or Bloom, if you prefer, is not reducible to a simple, formulated phrase--and that's where the continuing strength of Bellow's style comes in.
		If they were lucky, if they were bright and willing, Ravelstein would give them the greatest gift they could hope to receive and lead them through Plato, introduce them to the esoteric secrets of Maimonides, teach them the correct interpretation of Machievelli, acquaint them with the higher humanity of Shakespeare--up to and beyond Nietzsche.
		Ravelstein gives him the opportunity to reflect not only about Allan Bloom's death and about the true nature of male friendship but also about the life-threatening cigua toxin he got from eating poisoned fish during a Caribbean vacation.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /culture/literature/Overview_Jewish_American_Literature/Into_The_Literary_Mainstream/Saul_Bellow/Ravelstein.htm (545 words)

	Light & Truth -- To Allan, From Saul
		The appeal to Bellow of Ravelstein’s extravagance and excitement is characteristic: the “big-souled” intellectual meeting up with the material world is the situation of most Bellow novels.
		Bellow may have lifted the details from his observation of Bloom, but they belong happily in a novel, and Ravelstein is the latest in his long line of flamboyant sages constructed in the mold of Professor Maurice Herzog from Bellow’s novel of the same name.
		Ravelstein is dying of AIDS, but finding death “such a weird aphrodisiac.” Though he is dead when the novel begins, we keep returning to his life and its last months—his time “in the end-zone”.
	www.yale.edu /lt/archives/v7n2/v7n2toallanfromsaul.htm (902 words)

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