In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner's
moving final novel
A Penguin Classic
Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow's moving last novel is a journey through
love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on
death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of
whom is succumbing to AIDS, as they share thoughts on philosophy and
history, loves and friends, mortality and art.
This Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of
Viking's first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction
by Gary Shteyngart, it rounds out the entirety of Bellow's major works
in Penguin Classics black spine.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of
classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700
titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works
throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the
series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and
notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.