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A. The lengthy letters that he wrote all indicate his desire for improvement of the human condition.
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
B. However, he could not hope to save anybody before he saves himself. He has to touch ground and place himself under close scrutiny.
The Victim, 1947.
The Adventures of Augie March, 1953. ( won the National Book Award ) 《奥吉·玛琪历险记》
Seize The Day (1956), 《只争朝夕》
Henderson The Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), 《赫索格》
Saul Bellow (1915-2005 ) 索尔·贝娄
Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
the voice of the modern intellectual
Saul Bellow (1915-2005 )
Works:
Dangling Man, 1944. 《摇来晃去的人》
HERZOG (1964)
a man seeking balance, trying to regain a foothold on his life.
Themes:
1. Alienation 2. Quest
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Protagonist: Herzog undergoes a significant change in his personality and his way of perception. We see a gradual but clear movement from restlessness to tranquility, from cold and icy feelings to warm recollections of the past and joyful contact with child and nature, and from a negative outlook to an attitude of affirmation.
Post-war Novels
Revision
What is drama? Who is called the founder of
American Drama? Name some of the representatives
of American Drama and tell us their major works.
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Themes: Saul Bellow’s basic themes are essentially three-fold: （p430）
Characters are Jews, especially Jewish intellectuals or writers who, facing violence and victimization, try to discover “the queerness of existence” and overcome it.
1967)
Jewish Writers
“to portray the dilemmas of misfit heroes yearning for meaningful lives and moral regeneration”
Saul Bellow (1915-2005 ) Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
C. Then to be positive, seeing positive things in people, and beginning to forgive and love even his foes,
Diversit y
Major feature
“The child born in 1900 would be born into a new world which would not be a unity but a multiple”
----Henry Adams
Diversified 20th century American novel (postwar novels)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Realistic Fiction
Norman Mailer (1923- ) John Updike (1932Βιβλιοθήκη Baidu ) J.D. Salinger (1919- )
Black Fiction
Richard Wright(1908-1960) Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) Toni Morrison (1931- ) Alice Walker (1944- ) Langston Hughes (1902-
Jewish Fiction Southern Fiction Realistic Fiction Black Fiction
Jewish Fiction 犹太小说
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Bernard Malamud (19141986)
Southern Fiction
Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970). Humboldt‘s Gift (1975), 《洪堡的礼物》was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Both Herzog and Mr. Sammler's Planet were awarded the National Book Award for fiction.
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
B. However, he could not hope to save anybody before he saves himself. He has to touch ground and place himself under close scrutiny.
The Victim, 1947.
The Adventures of Augie March, 1953. ( won the National Book Award ) 《奥吉·玛琪历险记》
Seize The Day (1956), 《只争朝夕》
Henderson The Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), 《赫索格》
Saul Bellow (1915-2005 ) 索尔·贝娄
Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
the voice of the modern intellectual
Saul Bellow (1915-2005 )
Works:
Dangling Man, 1944. 《摇来晃去的人》
HERZOG (1964)
a man seeking balance, trying to regain a foothold on his life.
Themes:
1. Alienation 2. Quest
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Protagonist: Herzog undergoes a significant change in his personality and his way of perception. We see a gradual but clear movement from restlessness to tranquility, from cold and icy feelings to warm recollections of the past and joyful contact with child and nature, and from a negative outlook to an attitude of affirmation.
Post-war Novels
Revision
What is drama? Who is called the founder of
American Drama? Name some of the representatives
of American Drama and tell us their major works.
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Themes: Saul Bellow’s basic themes are essentially three-fold: （p430）
Characters are Jews, especially Jewish intellectuals or writers who, facing violence and victimization, try to discover “the queerness of existence” and overcome it.
1967)
Jewish Writers
“to portray the dilemmas of misfit heroes yearning for meaningful lives and moral regeneration”
Saul Bellow (1915-2005 ) Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
C. Then to be positive, seeing positive things in people, and beginning to forgive and love even his foes,
Diversit y
Major feature
“The child born in 1900 would be born into a new world which would not be a unity but a multiple”
----Henry Adams
Diversified 20th century American novel (postwar novels)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Realistic Fiction
Norman Mailer (1923- ) John Updike (1932Βιβλιοθήκη Baidu ) J.D. Salinger (1919- )
Black Fiction
Richard Wright(1908-1960) Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) Toni Morrison (1931- ) Alice Walker (1944- ) Langston Hughes (1902-
Jewish Fiction Southern Fiction Realistic Fiction Black Fiction
Jewish Fiction 犹太小说
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Bernard Malamud (19141986)
Southern Fiction
Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970). Humboldt‘s Gift (1975), 《洪堡的礼物》was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Both Herzog and Mr. Sammler's Planet were awarded the National Book Award for fiction.