The Adventures of Augie March is a picaresque novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1953 by Viking Press. It features the eponymous Augie March who grows up during the Great Depression and it is an example of bildungsroman, tracing the development of an individual through a series of encounters, occupations and relationships from boyhood to manhood.
The Adventures won the 1954 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Both TIME magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels.
Read more about The Adventures Of Augie March: The Novel, Summary of Plot, Literary Significance and Criticism, Trivia
Famous quotes containing the words adventures and/or march:
“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.”
—Anatole France (1844–1924)
“This is the village where the funeral
Stilted its dusty march over deep ruts
Up the hillside covered with queen’s lace
To the patch of weeds known finally to all.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)