Martin Amis vs. Saul Bellow
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Martin Amis
1949 – 2023
British novelist and essayist, son of Kingsley Amis, known for darkly comic and stylistically inventive novels such as Money, London Fields, and The Information.
"Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes…"
Saul Bellow
1915 – 2005
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
"It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart."
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