Abe Ravelstein
Oh, the magisterial Abe Ravelstein! Drawn from the real-life model of Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow's friend and colleague at the University of Chicago's Committee
on Social Thought, he is a world-class intellectual with a wide network of former students and a man who never stopped thinking about the condition of his
soul. Bellow has always been fatally attracted to the type, especially if, as is the case with Ravelstein, he also has enough hard cash to indulge his outrageously expensive tastes and to stay—often for extended periods—in the finest hotels Paris can offer.
on Social Thought, he is a world-class intellectual with a wide network of former students and a man who never stopped thinking about the condition of his
soul. Bellow has always been fatally attracted to the type, especially if, as is the case with Ravelstein, he also has enough hard cash to indulge his outrageously expensive tastes and to stay—often for extended periods—in the finest hotels Paris can offer.
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