id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8111 Herzog (novel) - Wikipedia .html text/html 2343 240 76 Herzog is a 1964 novel by Saul Bellow, composed in part of letters from the protagonist Moses E. Herzog's ideas, as expressed in his letters, are brilliant and seductive; "After Herzog", the New York Times book reviewer exulted, "no writer need pretend in his fiction that his education stopped in the eighth grade."[8] But, said Bellow in an interview, Herzog "comes to realize at last that what he considers his intellectual 'privilege' has proved to be another form of bondage."[9] It is only when he has loosened this bondage and gotten in touch with the "primordial person" who exists outside this ideology that Herzog can "achieve the experience of authentic being."[10] The character of Herzog in many ways echoes a fictionalized Saul Bellow. Herzog is nearly the same age that Bellow was when he wrote the novel. Herzog by Saul Bellow (1965) Novels by Saul Bellow ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8111.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8111.txt