num_pages: 348
description: Herzog is alone, now that Madeleine has left him for his best friend. Solitary, in a crumbling house which he shares with rats, he is buffeted by a whirlwind of mental activity. People rumoured that his mind had collapsed. But was it true? Locked for days in the custody of his rambling memories, Herzog scrawls frantic letters which he never mails. His mind buzzes with conundrums and polemics, writing in a spectacular intellectual labyrinth. Is he crazy, or is he a genius?..
language: English
title: Herzog
titlecomplete: Herzog
characters: Himmelstein, Madeleine (Herzog), Miss Schwartz, Ramona (Herzog), June Herzog, Gersbach, Moses Elkanah Herzog, Harvey Simkin
genres: Fiction, American, Jewish, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 21138
places: Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: -157737600000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -157737600000
name: Premio Formentor de las Letras
category: International
publisher: Penguin