Saul Bellow: Letters by Saul Bellow

Author:Saul Bellow
Language: pt
Format: mobi, azw3
Tags: Correspondence, Literary Collections, Letters, 20th Century, General, American, Literary Criticism, Authors, Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780670022212
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2010-11-04T05:14:39+00:00

To Meyer Schapiro

March 18, 1968 Oaxaca

Dear Meyer—

I thought you were in England. Now that I know you’re at home I shall certainly come to see you before you leave.

This is my second morning in Oaxaca. When you wake up in the tropics you understand the horror of your Northern fatigue. And the flowers tell you that you have been around much too long. Unfinished business is my excuse.

Of course I want to contribute to the Delmore fund. And I hope John Berryman will become, and remain, one of the judges. I haven’t seen him in two years, and he was in poor condition then, in full alcoholic bloat. I’m very fond of Berryman, and I admire him. I see why these self-destructive lives are led. But I can’t convince myself that it is a good tradition.

Did you receive tear-sheets of a longish story [“The Old System”] I published in January? I thought you might be interested in it. The New Yorker wanted deletions, so I gave it to Playboy in protest—lucrative protest. However, there are no poor but honest magazines. The quarterlies are about as corrupt as the slicks, and Hugh Hefner has pleasanter vices than Wm. Phillips.

My best wishes to you,

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