by Saul Bellow · Editorial Seix Barral, Colección Biblioteca de Bolsillo, 1986, Barcelona. Primera edición. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432230325
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«Carpe Diem» is the novel by Saul Bellow, published by Editorial Seix Barral in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Tommy Wilhelm, a man in crisis who wanders through New York feeling like a failure after divorce, unemployment, and estrangement from his father. The eccentric Dr. Tamkin, half psychologist and half stockbroker, convinces him to entrust his last savings to a stock market operation that triggers a decisive day.
The Spanish translation is by José Mª Valverde and the original title of the work is «Seize the Day» (1956).
A classic of twentieth-century American literary fiction, for readers interested in psychological and introspective character narratives.
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
