Saul Bellow published The Adventures of Augie March in 1953. A picaresque story of a poor Jewish boy from Chicago, the novel tracks his progress, sometimes highly comic, through the world of the 20th century and his attempts to make sense of it. For the first time in his works, Bellow employed a loose, breezy style in conscious revolt against the preoccupation of writers of that time with perfection of form. The novel won a National Book Award in 1954.
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