“Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.”
Bellow’s Pulitzer Prize winning work which explores the changing relationship of art and power in a materialist America.
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 487 pages. Very good condition dust jacket mild creasing and some fading on spine panel—in new dust jacket cover. Boards and spine clean with slight edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid and square. Pages toned. Tape fragments on both paste-downs. Clean, collectible copy.
