Herzog Bellow's Jewish Affair

Saul Bellow, the famous Jewish American writer, is the most outstanding American writer after Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner died. From 1938 until now Bellow has published a record of eleven novels, a number of short stories. His works have influenced American literature after world war II. The Nobel Prize came in 1976 to Saul Bellow for his "humanistic understand and exquisite analysis of the contemporary culture" Herzog is Bellow' s pivotal novel in his middle age and it established Bellow in American contemporary literature.Herzog describes a Jewish intellectual, Moses Herzog attempts to find a way for human beings who don' t know how to live in the helpless world. The thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter introduces Bellow' s style and the plot of Herzog. The second chapter analyses the Jewish specialty in Herzog, in this chapter, I tend to make a detailed analysis of the relation between Herzog and Jewish culture, so, from these analyses , I present Bellow' s love and respect for Jewish culture . The last chapter discusses briefly the relation between Bellow' s works and Jewish culture.The thesis adopts the theory of cultural poetics to expound Herzog. Using this theory, I explore Bellow' s deep emotion for Jewish culture. Bellow' s emotion for Jewish culture is the key to understand Herzog.