Saul Bellow , the Nobel laureate and self-proclaimed historian of society whose fictional heroes -- and whose scathing , unrelenting and darkly comic examination of their struggle for meaning -- gave new immediacy to the American novel in the second half of the 20th century , died yesterday at his home in Brookline , Mass. .
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