The Dean's December

The Dean's December

Infobox Book
name = The Dean's December


image_caption = First edition cover
author = Saul Bellow
country = United States
language = English
genre = Novel
publisher =
release_date = 1982
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages =
isbn = NA
preceded_by = Humboldt's Gift
followed_by = More Die of Heartbreak

"The Dean's December" is a 1982 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. The first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, it is set in Chicago and Bucharest. The book's main character, Albert Corde, a meditative academic who faces a crisis, accompanies his Romanian-born astrophysicist wife to her Communist-ruled native country, where they deal with the death of his mother-in-law. This sojourn allows Corde to observe the workings of a totalitarian regime in particular and the Eastern Bloc in general, a perspective which provides him with insight on the human condition.


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