Bellow's work abounds in references and quotes from Marcel Proust and Henry James, among others, but he offsets these high-culture references with jokes. Bellow interspersed autobiographical elements into his fiction, and many of his principal characters were said to bear a resemblance to him.
Bellow's work abounds in references and quotes from Marcel Prou.st and Henry James, among others, but he offsets these high-culture references with jokes Bellow interspersed autobiographical elements into his fiction, and many of his principal characters were said to bear a resemblance to him.