BELLOW, Saul - The Victim - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Did belong to a library before but book and wrapper still in a good condition   >>>   Who is the victim?...and of what?...even after having finished reading this novel I'm not sure. What I'm sure of is that it is a wonderful novel.    -   I loved the complexity of the protagonist, and the ambiguity of it all...like in life, it's hard to figure out who is guilty and of what. In that sense the novel felt philosophical at times. For the first fifty pages or so, things felt much too simple and the characters stereotyped but the rest of the book was excellent- it more than made up for it. Perhaps that fifty pages are an introduction of some kind...and there's a reason why the introduction is slow (or what could be a good word for it maybe "not revealing") - because it really grabs your attention once the things start to open up. There is not a character that did not feel real by the end of the story, it is like that they gained life with every page. There is something else that I really liked and that's the descriptiveness of the writing. It suited the story.   -   This is the first novel I've read by Saul Bellow, but I doubt it will be the last because from what I've seen he's a very gifted writer.   (Ivana on Goodreads)