《洪堡的礼物》作者是美国当代著名作家索尔·贝娄,这部作品一经推出,就引起了世界文学界极大反响,受到了广泛赞誉,并于1976年荣获美国普利策文学奖,随后索尔·贝娄又因此作品获得诺贝尔文学奖。《洪堡的礼物》取材于美国现实社会,表现了主人公西特林追忆往昔岁月,怀念冯·洪堡的伟大艺术,以及自身在现实生活中见证的荣耀与衰败的情感纠葛。西特林从自身生活角度,看透了美国社会文化对精神世界的腐蚀和摧残。 “Humboldt’s Gift” is the author of the contemporary American writer Saul Bellow, once released, this work has aroused great repercussions from the world literature circle, received wide acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1976 Later, Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize in literature for his works. The gift of Humboldt is based on American real society and shows the heroine CITRIN recalled the past years and remembered the great art of von Humboldt and the emotional dispute between glory and decline that she witnessed in real life. From the point of view of his own life, Citrin has seen the erosion and destruction of the spiritual world by American social culture.