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Humboldt's Gift
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Humboldt's Gift is a 1976 novel by Saul Bellow.The protagonist is one Charlie Citrine, a writer who's had a very successful career with plays and novels and screenplays. However, he's getting old, pushing sixty, and his career is stagnating. He also is having financial problems: his ex-wife Denise (assisted by a sympathetic judge) is bleeding him dry, and he has unwisely gotten mixed up with a con artist named Thaxter who has roped him into publishing a literary magazine that never went to press. Charlie also has a younger girlfriend, Renata, who expects to be kept in style. Meanwhile Charlie's being pursued by a gangster, Cantabile, who is after him for an unpaid poker debt.All this has Charlie thinking back on his old friend Von Humboldt Fleisher. Humboldt was a poet and author who was once Charlie's best friend, and who was a name in the literary world when Charlie was nobody. However, while Charlie rose to heights of great success, Humboldt was brought down by alcoholism and madness, and died in poverty. Charlie, at a crossroads in his life, can't help but wonder if his friend Humboldt was the better artist.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Domestic Abuse: As Humboldt descends into alcoholism and mental illness and professional failure, he starts beating his wife Kathleen. Eventually she leaves him. | |
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Divorce in Reno: As Humboldt became an abusive alcoholic and slowly went insane, his wife Kathleen went to Reno to divorce him. Charlie did this as well, staying at the ranch owned by the Reno rancher that Kathleen married after getting her divorce. | |
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Buxom Is Better: Charlie often speaks admiringly of his girlfriend Renata's great body and "marvelous breasts". | |
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Anachronic Order: The present-day narrative with Charlie's struggles is continually interrupted by extensive flashbacks where Charlie remembers, and tells stories about, Humboldt. | |
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Distant Prologue: The novel starts out with Charlie remembering how he, then a student in college, sought out Humboldt Fleisher back in the '30s when Humboldt had just hit it big with a book of poetry. | |
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