Is Moses Herzog - philosopher suffering romantic and cuckhold - losing his mind? His
formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend and he is left alone with his
whirling thoughts yet he still sees himself as a survivor raging against private disasters
and those of the modern age. His head buzzing with ideas he writes frantic unsent letters to
friends and enemies colleagues and famous people the living and the dead revealing the
spectacular workings of his labyrinthine mind and the innermost secrets of his troubled heart.
