PREFACE
1. Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York: Viking Press, 1975; Penguin paperback, 1996, page 4. The reference to the nightmare may be compared with James Joyce’s Ulysses: ‘History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’ James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1922; Penguin edition of the 1960 Bodley Head edition, 1992, page 42.