Author(s)

Tingting Du ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Studies, Jilin University, Changchun, 130015, China

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ABSTRACT

Saul Bellow, a prominent American Jewish writer, maintains a steadfast commitment to Jewish traditions as a second-generation American Jew. So the study of Bellow's Jewishness constitutes a significant aspect of analyzing his novels. Herzog is widely acclaimed as Bellow's masterpiece that intricately delves into the cultural characteristics of the Jewish people, serving as a quintessential manifestation of Bellow's profound Jewish consciousness. This paper systematically analyzes Jewishness embodied in Herzog from the two perspectives: Jewish archetype Moses and the Jewish motifs of vagrancy and return in order to explore Bellow's inheritance of Jewish culture.

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Tingting Du, Jewishness Reflected in Herzog. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 192-198. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070130.

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