一、引言索尔·贝娄(Saul Bellow)是位多产的作家,曾三次获得国家图书奖。1976年,他凭借“对当代文化富于人性的理解和精妙的阐释”成为第一位荣获诺贝尔文学奖的当代美国犹太作家。他作品中的人物,常常游离在理想和现实之间,漂泊不定,只有在尝遍了生活的艰辛与苦涩之后,才思考何为自己想要的人生, I. INTRODUCTION Saul Bellow is a prolific writer who won the National Book Award three times. In 1976, he became the first contemporary American Jewish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature with his “Understanding and Exquisite Interpretation of Human Nature in Contemporary Culture.” The characters in his works are often wandering between the ideal and the reality, wandering. Only after they have tasted the hardships and bitterness of life, do they think about what they want in life,