10 May 2019A different kind of Chicago onstageCHICAGO — When “The Adventures of Augie March,”Saul Bellow’s groundbreaking 500-plus-page Chicago epic, was published in 1953, it shook up literature. For the first time, an American writer told a Jewish-American hero’s picaresque story of self-discovery in heightened language and street-smart argot. Zachary Leader, Bellow’s most recent biographer, calls it “the great American novel.”
