A Study Of The Intellectual-Searcher Images In Bellow's Novels

Saul Bellow has the most distinguished literary career in the contemporary American literature, which is known for a variety of schools and their unconventional features. He is an American Jewish writer with profound knowledge and rich experiences. Through his deep understanding and thinking of the modern American society, Saul Bellow builds his "Novel-Kingdom". In this shining "Novel-Kingdom", he creates a series of American Jewish intellectual-searcher images who were excluded from the modern society with the characteristic of isolated, suffered and misgived. Because of Bellow's high sense of responsibility, deep culture accumulated and sharp insight, he gave his intellectual-searcher images the complicated social and cultural meanings, aesthetics character.This paper trying to analyze the series of the intellectual-searcher images in Bellow's novels, mainly concerned his three works: Herzog(1964), Humboldt's Gift(1975), More Die of Heartbreak(1987). Taking the leading character in this three works for example, through the exposing of their typical period-feature, the study of their human life searching and the analysis of their final result, to show their distinctive aesthetics character. Bellow's exceeding responsibility sense and humanistic concern also can be seen from this. It is also the valuable of Bellow's intellectual-searcher images that existed.