Saul Bellow: Martin Amis, Sam Tanenhaus, James Parker, Francine Prose in New York Times Book Review don’t know Bellow had multiple personality

Tomorrow’s Book Review, prompted by a new biography and a new book of collected nonfiction, has four essays about Saul Bellow. But there is no mention of Bellow’s multiple personality, discussed previously in six posts, which you can access by searching “Saul Bellow” in this blog:

Nov. 15, 2014: Bellow credits an alternate personality as his co-writer

Nov. 17, 2014: Bellow discusses Herzog and himself in regard to multiple personality

Nov. 26, 2014: In Herzog, both Madeleine and Herzog have multiple personality

Nov. 28, 2014: Bellow’s Doppelgänger Pseudonym and Paradoxical Memory

Nov. 29, 2014: Bellow writes as slave of alternate personalities

Dec. 9, 2014: “Spell” in Herzog

Bellow did not use the term “multiple personality,” but what he said about himself and wrote in Herzog amounts to the same thing.

Reading what I quote Bellow as saying, you may think, “Don’t be silly, that’s just how novelists are.” True, and that’s the point of this blog.