SAUL BELLOW’S LETTERS: THE HUMAN DOCUMENT AND THE NOVEL
The article analyses the linkage between Saul Bellow’s epistolary discourse and his novelistic world basing on his novel Herzog. While Bellow’s letters demonstrate a varying degree of the writer’s deliberate aesthetic intervention, what defines them essentially is the way of “constructing the image” of the author’s personality, the conscious effort of shaping his own life which provides the basis for the novel as a genre blending fictional imagery and “real matters”.