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Chen, Tung-jung. "Man in the City: A Study of Saul Bellow's Urban Novels," Michigan State University, February 1987.
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This dissertation studies the role of the city, the city-country dialogue, and the man-city dialogue in Saul Bellow’s eight urban novels. The city is more than the arena for the Bellovian human drama: it mirrors the hero’s inner life, sets the mood and time for the novel, becomes a metaphor for modern society, and is a character in its own right. Despite the oppression of the city, the Bellow hero remains in the city and accepts it as reality. Concerned about the plight of modern man’s inner and outer cities, Bellow believes that only poetry and the imagination can rescue the city from decay.
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