The Adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow is one of the most significant English-speaking writers of the 20th century. His talent has been recognized with the highest literary award in the United States – the Pulitzer Prize and the highest literary award in the world – the Nobel Prize. The novel The Adventures of Augie March, which paints a portrait of a typical American boy against the colorful panorama of American life in the first half of the 20th century, was awarded the National Book Award in the United States. Augie March is sacramentally unlucky. He is unlucky in childhood, in youth, and in adulthood. Literally every attempt he makes to establish himself in life and gain even a semblance of stability ends in catastrophic failure. However, he does not dwell too much on it – for life goes on! And there will still be – both a paying job and incredible adventures, and women, women, women…