Premium Content Confused Identity: Moses Herzog's Telling of His Own Story
By Nathaniel Popper - February 19, 2002
While Moses Herzog sits in the Chicago police station after he has crashed his rental car, the narrator of Saul Bellow's work exclaims angrily, "See Moses? We don't know one another" (299). This is the lone moment in the book where the narrator explicitly suggests some separation between himself and Herzog. Much of the rest of the novel provides an…
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