Χέντερσον, ο Βασιλιάς της Βροχής
Saul Bellow, 1959
A rich, enormous, furious American tells his own life at full volume: wives, a farm, a debt of love, and a hunger for something he can't name.
Saul Bellow
Bellow's second novel won the 1960 National Book Award and was praised by readers as varied as Saul Bellow's own contemporaries and, later, Martin Amis, who called it his favourite. Its opening line is one of the most quoted in American fiction.
Feels like humor, joy and identity.
What it sounds like when someone loves you and you can't believe it.
Ἔχει τηλέφωνο στὴν κρεβατοκάμαρά μου». Ἔτσι λοιπὸν ἀνεβήκαμε ἐπάνω. Σᾶς διαβεβαιώνω πὼς ἡ συμπεριφορὰ τῆς Λίλι δὲν εἶχε τίποτα τὸ πρόστυχο ἢ τὸ χυδαῖο. Ὅταν ξεντύθηκε, ἄρχισε νὰ μιλάει μὲ τρεμάμενη φωνή: «Σ‘ ἀγαπῶ! Σ‘ ἀγαπῶ!» Κι ἐγὼ εἶπα ἀπὸ μέσα μου καθὼς ἀγκαλιαστήκαμε: «Πῶς εἶναι δυνατὸν ν’ ἀγαπάει ἐμένα – ἐμένα, ἐμένα;» Ἀκούστηκε ἕνα κουβάρι ἀπὸ μπουμπουνητὰ κι ὕστερα ξέσπασε δυνατὴ βροχὴ μὲ ἀστραπὲς ποὺ μαστίγωνε τοὺς δρόμους, τὰ δέντρα, τὶς στέγες καὶ τὰ παντζούρια. Τὰ πάντα ἄστραφταν. Books by Saul Bellow
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