“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. Book club edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 487 pages. Dust jacket in good condition with some fading on spine panel, in protector. Boards clean and bright with minimal wear. Binding tight and square. Pages clear. Very clean copy.
