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Language English Publisher Harper | 3.6/5 Publication date 1982 Originally published 1982 Genre Novel Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar Saul Bellow books, Novels, Classical Studies books |
The Dean's December is a 1982 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. The first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, it is set in Chicago and Bucharest. The book's main character, Albert Corde, a meditative academic who faces a crisis, accompanies his Romanian-born astrophysicist wife to her Communist-ruled native country, where they deal with the death of his mother-in-law. This sojourn allows Corde to observe the workings of a totalitarian regime in particular and the Eastern Bloc in general, a perspective which provides him with insight into the human condition.
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