April 22, 2005

'When I Sit at the Typewriter, I Open My Heart'

By JAY PARINI

Saul Bellow: 1915-2005

The death of a major writer always attracts appreciations, reappraisals, and melancholy thoughts about the decline of literature. The recent death of Saul Bellow at 89 is no exception, although anyone scanning the Web will notice that his death has drawn far more attention in Britain than here. For two decades or so, Bellow has been a guiding light to younger British novelists, like Martin Amis and Ian McEwan, who have found in the American writer's crackling,

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