Unraveling Bellow 's Ravelstein

Saul Bellow draws heavily from real life in all of his novels. Real people in his life are thinly disguised characters that populate his books. Perhaps that adds to the insightful quality of his writing. As a novel Ravelstein is very moving, poignant, and it is also rift with modern comedy. Writing that has the ability to have us laughing out loud on one page and crying or sad on the next, is writing that is full of the stuff of life. Because it is not biography, it escapes the realm of boring anecdote and personal detail, leaving the art and the images to convey the meaning. Now, has anyone heard of Lytton Strachey?

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