人物形象与作者主观精神的外化--从摩西@赫索格透视贝娄对社会与人生的探索

<赫索格>是美国当代作家索尔@贝娄的一部重要作品,摩西@赫索格是一个深受人们所喜爱的人物,作者对赫索格这一当代"倒霉人”形象的细致刻划反映了他对人类生存中理智与情感、物质与精神关系的理解及其对当代美国社会本质与普遍人性的思考,表明了他对人文主义精神复归所抱有的期望.在一个以追求占有和利润为宗旨的社会中,许多人已不再思索道德、精神对于人生的价值与意义,物质的发达、现实的残酷造成人对情感、人道的漠视及人际关系的堕落.贝娄对这些问题表现了极大的关注,试图在自己的作品中揭露社会与人生的种种荒谬,唤醒人类善良的天性,重新审视生存的真正含义.

Character Image and Externalization of Author's Subjective Spirits

Herzong is generally regarded as Saul Bellow's best novel which glows with a hopeful expectation for a constructive humanism from the author. With a Careful analysis of the title character, Bellow demonstrated his particular understanding of the relationship between sense and Sensibility in human life, expressed his serious concern over the contemporary American society and human life. In a profit - loving society, few tend to take into consideration the ethical and spiritual values of life. The material prosperity only results in a spiritual poverty and a disparagement of genuine human emotions. Bellow was deeply concerned about these problems, and by revealing the various absurdities in life and society, tried to make make reassess the meaning of life.