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Seize the Day
First edition
AuthorSaul Bellow
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherViking
Publication date
November 15, 1956[1]
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages128

Seize the Day, first published in 1956, is Saul Bellow's fourth novel. It was adapted into the film of the same name.

Synopsis

The story centers on a day in the life of Wilhelm Adler (a.k.a. Tommy Wilhelm), a failed actor in his forties. He is poor, unemployed and separated from his wife (who refuses to agree to a divorce). He is also estranged from his children and his father, a highly regarded former doctor who lives in the same Broadway building.

Wilhelm is immature and lacks insight, which has brought him to failure.

In Seize the Day Wilhelm experiences a day of reckoning as he is forced to examine his life and to accept the "burden of self."

References

  1. ^ "Books Today". The New York Times: 32. November 15, 1956.


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