{"product_id":"conversations-with-saul-bellow-on-stephen-e-usher-9781621482079","title":"Conversations with Saul Bellow on Esoteric-Spiritual Matters: A Publisher's Recollections","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1975, Saul Bellow published his eighth novel, \u003ci\u003eHumboldt's Gift, \u003c\/i\u003ein which the main protagonist is occupied with, among other things, the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. Although the novel was an immediate success and won a Pulitzer Prize, leading to Bellow's Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, the unapologetic presence of Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy in a work of such obvious cultural importance was, and remains, puzzling for many commentators. A sentence from one contemporary review of the novel is typical: \"I am not clear whether Charlie's devotion to Steiner's Anthroposophy is one of Mr. Bellow's more obscure jokes or is meant seriously.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose readers with more than a passing knowledge of Steiner's work, however, immediately recognized that an authentic effort to come to terms with anthroposophy in an unbiased way was behind Bellow's artful depiction of Charlie Citrine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Usher, who later became the manager of the Anthroposophic Press (now SteinerBooks), was one such reader. This book offers a personal account of the conversations and correspondence that followed their meeting through a mutual acquaintance, and includes the foreword Saul Bellow wrote then for the book of lectures by Rudolf Steiner, \u003ci\u003eThe Boundaries of Natural Science.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen E. Usher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621482073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621482079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steiner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Stephen E. Usher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987957842175,"sku":"9781621482079","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_607851ad-f2e7-4850-86dc-f03e485e6bba.jpg?v=1683291819","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conversations-with-saul-bellow-on-stephen-e-usher-9781621482079","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}