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Humboldt's Gift

Yazan: Saul Bellow
Seslendiren: Christopher Hurt
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 For years, they were the best of friends: the grand, erratic Humboldt and the ambitious young Charlie. But now Humboldt has died a failure, and Charlie's success-ridden life has taken various turns for the worse. Then Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life: he has left Charlie something in his will.©1973 Saul Bellow (P)1992 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Kurgu İlham verici
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That’s what the narrator seems to like to do. Perhaps it’s just me, or that I listen to audiobooks on my headphones and am sensitive to the dynamic range I should subject my ears to, but he eats words up, rendering them inaudible. The prosodic contours that the narrator chooses to parse the cadences of Saul Bellow’s masterly writing plunges the trailing bits of nearly every unit of diction below my audible threshold. This is quite annoying as it makes me lose words that have been carefully chosen by the author, or crank up the volume, in which case his voice takes on a piercing rasp which is also a source of discomfort. I persisted with this for a while, taking it in in short stretches, but I am strongly inclined to return the audiobook and pick up the paperback instead. I have nothing negative to say about the novel, but then this is one of Bellow’s famous works....

Eat my words

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Unstoppably brilliant. Up there with Herzog, Augie March and Ravelstein. The guy reading it does a near-genius job in capturing the mock-heroic, comic and often deeply moving tones Bellow could effortless convince onto the page too. Bravo. My only slight side-note or nag would be the over-all recording quality isn't great. It's clearly been recorded digitally off of an original cassette tape, the other side of said tape on occasion faintly coming through. Very soon though i almost totally faded this out and it didn't ruin my enjoyment a jot after the opening 15 minutes. This is a must read, highly recommended, and not just for fans of Bellow or stylish prose: the story being compelling enough in itself. It's one i'll read and read again over the years, dipping into the physical copy often for one of those many spellbinding bellow set-pieces. 10\10.

A full-on world-beater. A masterpiece.

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One of Bellow's mature tours de force, with a wonderful performance from the reader, quite characteristic of Bellow audiobooks. If only all authors were this lucky with their audiobook readers!

A mature Bellow tour de force

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brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.Masterful Expertly written. expertly narrated. wonderful characters and descriptions throughout. I thoroughly enjoyed it

humboldts gift

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This extraordinary work has many of the hallmarks of Bellow at his best. It’s brilliantly intelligent, weaves between innumerable themes, dancing language, colourful, intelligent. It’s told by a first person narrator. I’ve marked the story 4 because the story is wrapped in a many coloured cloak of reflexive reflection for the most part interspersed scenes of drama.

An eminent writer weaves with certain women, a semi hoodlum, talks endlessly about his former friend, a poet, tries to sort out his life. And navigates love and money problems. All this while studying Rudolf Steiner and the larger spiritual questions of life.

I think the book is deeply philosophical reflecting on the mystery of the human as it portrays a Faustian individual searching for more than the ordinary world can provide while travelling within it.. That probably doesn’t make much sense, but there are times in this densely wrote work of continual mental pyrotechnics when one can be in awe of the genius, sometimes lost, on display through his narration. It’s a rich ride on a language surfboard.

I’ve also marked the performance at 4 because the voice is brilliant at evoking moods but has a slightly harsh timbre. Recording?

At the end, so it’s one of the finest and most thought-provoking books I’ve read and not reducible to anything Simple

Brilliant thoughtful colourful literary Work

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