贝娄的长篇小说《院长的十二月》是他在1976年获得诺贝尔文学奖后出版的小说。该作品是贝娄创作上发生重大转折的标志,即从原来富有喜剧色彩的叙述转向了颇具悲剧彩色的叙述。本文试图运用城市文学研究的一些基本理念,对该小说中所出现的芝加哥和布加勒斯特这两座城市意象进行分析与对比,并以此来反观贝娄对现代美国城市所持的复杂态度。 Bellow’s December, Dean’s, is a novel he published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. The work is a sign of a major turning point in Bellow’s writing, that is, it turns from a richly comic narrative to a rather tragic colored narration. This paper attempts to use the basic concepts of urban literature to analyze and contrast the images of Chicago and Bucharest which appear in this novel and to reflect on Bellow’s complex attitude toward modern American cities.