Trivia
- In the Kingsley Amis novel Stanley and the Women (1984), Stanley's son Steve reads a copy of Herzog and abruptly tears it up.
- Ian McEwan begins his 2005 novel Saturday with an extended epigraph from Herzog.
- The middle name E. in Moses E. Herzog stands for Elkanah.
- The narrator/protagonist of J. M. Coetzee's "The Vietnam Project" in Dusklands has in his possession before being committed to an asylum a copy of Herzog in addition to Patrick White's Voss (novel).
- The plot of the movie A Serious Man from the Coen brothers is partly similar to the plot of Herzog, as the main character in both is a middle-aged Jewish professor whose wife leaves him for their family friend. In both the wife asks him to leave his own house, and he passively agrees without arguing. As a consequence, he teeters on the verge of losing his mind and his academic career suffers.
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