当代精英作家的两难之境及其解决——索尔·贝娄对文学精英论传统的继承与超越

Saul Bellow's Literary Elitism

作为诺贝尔奖获得者,索尔.贝娄对文学和社会的理解带有一种强烈的知识分子的责任心,而这种责任心带有一种明显的文化精英主义的特征。同时由于当下多元文化共存的语境和消费文化的环境,贝娄的精英论又不是那么激进,他很好地解决了当代作家很难应对的名誉与名气问题,直到生命的最后都保持了高水平的创作。

Saul Bellow＇ s idea of literature and society is touched with a kind of literary elitism, which is rather moderate rather than radical. In a multicultural society, he solved the problem of how contemporary writers should look at their fame and renown.