The Confusion Of The Intelectuals

Soul Bellow was regarded as the most important American novelist after Hemingway and Faulkner. In 1976, he won Nobel Prize, this show his position in American literary field. Bellow has distinct intellectual features. His different works shows different ways of writing, stressing his unique value of understanding. He doesn't want to stress on those trifles, he just wants to reflect the true society deeply and to express the feelings of his contemporaries. He uses modernism ideas and ways to create his works, and also some European realisms elements. These ideology and style reflects a western modern literary tendency.Qian Zhongshu was a famous Chinese writer during 30s and 40s in the 20th century. His works closely connected with his time, society and human life. He discovers the morbid spiritual state of the old time intellectuals between the traditional feudalism culture and modern western culture. From his novel and short stories, we can find Qian Zhongshu's existential ideology and modern style.It can help us understand and think about the complex relationship between Chinese modern literature and American literature comparing Soul Bellow and Qian Zhongshu .It can also help us find the same features and different cultural, spiritual and historical characteristics comparing these two important writers in the world.