Author(s)

Xinxin Xing ¹, Huihui Huang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, China

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ABSTRACT

Contemporary American writer Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is widely recognized as one of the most representative American novelists after Faulkner and Hemingway. Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow's masterpiece, focuses on the story of Humboldt, the famous American poet of the 1930s, who, in his old age, was left with nothing and scorned by the world, and left a play as a gift to his student, Citrin, on his deathbed. The novel centers around the death of Humboldt and reveals the bitterness and uncertainty of American intellectuals after the Second World War. Grounded in the context of the American era from the 1930s to the 1970s, combined with the crises of career, love, and friendship that the poet Humboldt encounters in American society in the novel, it can better help researchers to re-examine the causes of the death of the poet Humboldt in Humboldt's Gift, and reveal Saul Bellow's concerns and reflections on the destinies of American literature and poets.

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Xinxin Xing, Huihui Huang, The Death of the Poet and Its Causes in Humboldt's Gift. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 98-102. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061615.

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