The Plight Of The Jewish Intellectuals In Humboldt’s Gift

Saul bellow is a renowned contemporary American novelist of jewish origin.He is known as the spokesman of contemporary American literature and is considered to be one of the most famous contemporary American writers after Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.Bellow’s works mainly focus on American intellectuals.From his first novel,Thewanderingman,Saul bellow focused his attention on the intellectuals and paid close attention to their fate,and gave deep care to the encounter of intellectuals in modern cities.This theme continued until his last novel,Ravelstein.As a jewish writer,Saul bellow pays special attention to jewish intellectuals in the intellectual community.In his novels,he combines the two elements of intellectuals and jews to explore their spiritual world.Bellow always maintains an objective attitude,which not only has instinctive sympathy for the nation,but also examines the disaster of the jewish nation rationally.Humboldt’sgiftis bellow’s masterpiece.Through the description of the life and fate of two generations of jewish writers,the novel explores the survival plight of American jewish intellectuals.This thesis focuses on the survival dilemma of jewish intellectuals in Humboldt’sgift,and analyzes their spiritual confusion,survival exploration and identity pursuit.The thesis consists of three parts.The first chapter mainly studies the main manifestations of the survival dilemma of jewishintellectuals in Humboldt’s gift,including their destruction in the era of change,jewish identity and cultural conflict,value choice and spiritual dilemma.The second chapter mainly studies thestruggle and search of jewish intellectuals in the plight of Humbold t’s gift,and analyzes the writer’s identity,ethnic identity,and heterosexual identity.The third chapter studies the social,spir itual and cultural home of jewish intellectuals in Humboldt’s gift,reveals the active or passive choices of jewish intellectuals un der difficult living conditions,and objectively presents the distr ess consciousness and reflective spirit of American jewish intellectuals in the 20 th century.