Saul Bellow is one of the most significant English-language writers of the 20th century. His talent was recognized by the highest literary award in the United States, the Pulitzer Prize, and the highest literary prize in the world, the Nobel Prize. The novel “The Adventures of Augie March,” which paints a portrait of a typical American guy against the backdrop of a colorful panorama of American life in the first half of the twentieth century, was awarded the US National Book Award. Augie March is sacramentally unlucky. Unlucky in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Literally every attempt he makes to somehow get settled in life and find at least a shadow of stability ends in catastrophic failure. However, he is not too discouraged - after all, life goes on! And there will still be money, and incredible adventures, and women, women, women...