Herzog, a novel by the American writer and Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, first published in 1964. The main character Moses Herzog, a professor of romanticism, is going through a crisis after his divorce from his second wife, and he is also facing a setback
The novel became a classic almost immediately after its publication in 1964. Moses E. Herzog is a middle-aged intellectual who is recovering from the breakup of his second marriage and is on the verge of suicide, and through the novel we follow him during his "inner journey".
Drawing on the novels of Mark Twain, Straub and King in Talisman build a world on the border between everyday American life - detailed and textured with numerous references to popular products, TV series, sweets - and the non-existent world of the Territo