"The Adventures of Saul Bellow"

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Image courtesy of the Barcelona Jewish Film Festival

Saul Bellow has been the most acclaimed novelist in the US for much of his life, winning, among others, the Nobel Prize, three National Book Awards and the Pulitzer. This is the first documentary about Saul Bellow, the man described by critic James Woods as “the most important US prose stylist of the 20th century." The film shows us interviews with relatives, close friends and writers who found inspiration in his works. Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Roth examine Bellow’s revolutionary impact on literature, as well as his multiple identities: writer, polemicist, “serial husband,” father, Jew and a citizen of Chicago. The film highlights two fundamental elements of Bellow’s work and life: humor and satire. The film will be presented by its director Asaf Galay. 

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