Herzog, a novel by the American writer and Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, first published in 1964. The main character Moses Herzog, a professor of romanticism, is going through a crisis after his divorce from his second wife, and he is also facing a setback
The novel became a classic almost immediately after its publication in 1964. Moses E. Herzog is a middle-aged intellectual who is recovering from the breakup of his second marriage and is on the verge of suicide, and through the novel we follow him during his "inner journey".