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Er sterven er meer van liefdesverdriet (1987)

door Saul Bellow

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Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown." Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments. As Kenneth grapples with his own problems involving his unusual lady-friend Treckie, the two men try to figure out why gifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves "knee-deep in the garbage of a personal life."… (meer)
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  sllorens | Nov 24, 2021 |
Kenneth Trachtenberg, protagonista e narratore, è un intellettuale che torna nel Midwest dopo aver abbandonato gli studi di letteratura russa che faceva a Parigi. È un uomo che si fa molte domande sul senso della vita e sul rapporto con gli altri, in relazione al sesso, che vede praticare con leggerezza dall'anziano zio da parte di madre, Benn Crader, famoso botanico e professore, e da suo padre, gran seduttore, mentre ammette le proprie difficoltà con le donne. La madre vive in Africa. Lo zio, di nascosto dal nipote, sta forse per sposare Caroline. Kenneth va a Seattle per discutere con la sua ex-fidanzata Treckie, con la quale ha una bambina di tre anni, cosa programmare per la sua crescita. Qui capisce che lei vede ormai un altro, con il quale ha un rapporto complesso, fatto anche di violenza, e al ritorno ne discute con il padre. Poi parte con lo zio, che vuole sfuggire a Caroline e va a Kyoto, dove resta colpito dall'ordine e dalla precisione dei giapponesi. Al ritorno lo zio Benn si vede con Matilda Layamon, che vuole anche lei sistemarsi con un uomo anziano famoso che possa calmare il suo lato selvaggio. Benn, temendo che Kenneth possa convincerlo a desistere, si affretta a sposarla. Il padre della ragazza a un certo punto si intromette negli affari della famiglia Crader, sperando di risolvere diverse cose pendenti di Benn e della sorella (madre di Kenneth). È che lo zio Benn capisce tutto di licheni ma poco di cose pratiche. Alla fine Benn riceve un'eredità importante, ma manda la moglie in luna di miele da sola e si rifugia a studiare le forme vegetali del Polo Nord. Anche Trickie pare che si sposerà e Kenneth si interroga sulla forza taumaturgica dell'amore e del sesso, e sull'affanno a costruirsi modelli di vita sentimentale cui stare dietro.
  kikka62 | Feb 20, 2020 |
A sad tale about the decline and disintegration of a noble academic botanist when he turns to finding satisfactions in personal life. Well worth the read. One feels that some editing would help before the plot engages, but that passes.
  ivanfranko | Apr 27, 2019 |
After I finished “Herzog” last year, I thought it was easily one of the best books I’d read in 2012. This book, published almost a quarter of a century later in 1987, leaves much to be desired. It continues many of the themes that one would readily recognize as prominent in Bellow’s novels – the sordid private lives of intellectuals, especially their romantic relationships, mixed in with a heady dose of the ideas those intellectuals live and work in. The book mostly traces the lives of two of these intellectuals - Kenneth Trachtenberg, a Russian studies professor who has moved from Paris to the Midwest to be at his uncle’s university, and his uncle Benn Crader, the world-famous botanist (or as Bellow cheekily puts it, “plant mystic.”)

Benn, while he’s had a phenomenally successful career, is utterly clueless about his romantic life, and Kenneth mercilessly dissects his private failures throughout the novel, in a way that almost makes you question his supposed reverence for his uncle. He repeatedly brings up – not to Benn in conversation, but to the reading audience - a one-time sexual encounter that Benn had with an older, drunk neighbor to whom he claimed to not be attracted but slept with anyway. She is exasperated when he then seems uninterested in her romantic intentions. Later, he meets a woman named Caroline who is manages to be simultaneously aloof and overbearing. Later still, he meets Matilda who claims to want an older, intelligent man. Benn marries her without Kenneth’s knowledge.

Kenneth, not surprisingly, has romantic problems of his own. While Benn is planning a wedding to Caroline, he is visiting Treckie, with whom he has one child. He notices that since their breakup, she has begun living with man whose sexual aggression has bruised her legs – something that Kenneth always refused to do.

The real pitfall of the novel is where Bellow’s exploration of Matilda’s father’s shady business dealings. He purchased Benn’s mother’s house for pennies on the dollar, only to have him and his friends greatly profit from it. Too much of the novel is spent discussing how Matilda’s father plans to make things right by Benn by seeing that receives a lot of this money so Matilda can get the wealthy husband she deserves. I thought it prevented this rich, deep discussion of the complexities of human relationships from being even better. And as I got further into the book, it seemed like the side story of how Matilda’s father made his living by screwing over Benn’s mother and her children became more central, and because of that I became less interested.

I’m usually not one to run toward facile interpretations which read a novel as a barely veiled version of the author’s own life, but that resisting that temptation is particularly difficult here. One can easily see in Bellow the same capacious intellect and rapacity for the history of ideas that we see in Benn and Kenneth, and consequently perhaps, the same lack of social and sexual sangfroid. Bellow was married five times, and two of those marriages lasted for only about three years each.

Caroline, Treckie, and Matilda could easily be versions of Bellow’s real-life romantic attachments. But even if they were, his trenchant analysis of romantic human needs and desires doesn’t stop with them; he’s just as critical of the detached, cool attitudes of Benn and Kenneth. I don’t think this is one of Bellow’s masterpieces, as I would openly admit of “Herzog” (“Augie March” and “Humboldt’s Gift” seem equally important, though I’ve read neither) but if you have an affinity for Bellow’s writing, this may be of interest. ( )
  kant1066 | Dec 7, 2013 |
This book definitely has the same kind of east-coast, masculine, sex-obsessed vibe as Philip Roth, but while that can sometimes be a little trying, it isn't necessarily a bad thing. Bellow is often very funny, and the pay off in the narrative for his characters' obsessive traits makes it all worthwhile.

[full review here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2010/10/more-die-of-heartbreak-by-saul-bellow.html ] ( )
  kristykay22 | Oct 27, 2010 |
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Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown." Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments. As Kenneth grapples with his own problems involving his unusual lady-friend Treckie, the two men try to figure out why gifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves "knee-deep in the garbage of a personal life."

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