知识分子的困境和超越——《洪堡的礼物》中充满希望的人文主义

The Predicament and Transcendence of Intellectuals:The Hopeful Humanism Reflected in Humboldt’s Gift

美国著名作家索尔.贝娄是一位对人文主义抱有希望的知识分子,在他的作品中充满了对荒原文化中知识分子的人文关怀。《洪堡的礼物》借助美国20世纪30年代至60年代间洪堡和西特林两代诗人的人生沉浮和人际交往表现了资本主义商业社会中知识分子的生存困境,表现了与大众隔离的精英知识分子走向毁灭的悲剧。小说末尾表达了对知识分子创造力的肯定,传递了具有批判精神的独立的并与世俗融合的知识分子是人文主义希望的思想。

Saul Bellow is an intellectual writer who holds hopeful view on humanism. His works are filled with humanistic concern for intellectuals in the context of the Wasteland culture. Humboldt＇s Gift shows the predicament of intellectuals in a capilalist commercial environment from the 1930s to the 1960s in America and the alienation of elite intellectuals from the mass culture. The novel expresses the affirmation of intellectual＇s creativity and delivers the information that independent intellectuals with critical spirit and flexible tolerance of the worldliness art. the hope of humanism.