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Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him of problems left behind in Chicago. A student has been murdered and Corde had directed that charges be pressed against two black youths, but controversy and pressure are mounting against the university administration. Further, a series of articles Corde had written has offended powerful and influential Chicagoans whom Corde had counted on as friends. Corde is troubled - at home the centre is not holding firm, in Eastern Europe authority is cruel and dehumanizing.
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The Dean's December, Saul Bellow
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- The Dean's December
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Saul Bellow
- Verlag
- Penguin
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140189130
- ISBN13
- 9780140189131
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Philosophisches Thema, Familie, Klassiker, Amerikanische Literatur, Modernismus, Rumänien, Chicago, Bukarest
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1982
- Originaltitel
- The Dean’s December
- Bewertung
- 3,55 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him of problems left behind in Chicago. A student has been murdered and Corde had directed that charges be pressed against two black youths, but controversy and pressure are mounting against the university administration. Further, a series of articles Corde had written has offended powerful and influential Chicagoans whom Corde had counted on as friends. Corde is troubled - at home the centre is not holding firm, in Eastern Europe authority is cruel and dehumanizing.