Ravelstein

In time for the centennial of his birth the Nobel Prize winner’s moving final novelA Penguin ClassicDeeply insightful Saul Bellow’s moving last novel is a journey through love and memory an elegy to friendship and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form it follows two university professors one of whom is succumbing to AIDS as they share thoughts on philosophy and history loves and friends mortality and art.This Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Viking’s first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction by Gary Shteyngart it rounds out the entirety of Bellow’s major works in Penguin Classics black spine.For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.