索尔·贝娄是美国当代享有盛誉的小说家。1976年,由于他“对当代文化富于人性的理解和分析”获得诺贝尔文学奖。索尔·贝娄有着非常复杂的文化身份,1915年出生于加拿大一个犹太移民家庭,父母是俄国移民,在贝娄9岁时全家又迁至美国第二大城市芝加哥定居。在他犹太人的骨子里,他年轻时崇敬列宁和托洛斯基。他也自认为是欧洲文化的儿子,萨特 Saul Bellow is a contemporary American novelist. In 1976, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “Understanding and Analysis of the Humanistic Nature of Contemporary Culture.” Saul Bellow has a very complex cultural identity. Born in 1915 in a Jewish immigrant family in Canada, his parents were Russian immigrants. At the age of 9, Bellow moved to settle in Chicago, the second largest city in the United States. In his Jewish bones, he admired Lenin and Toroski as a young man. He also considered himself the son of European culture, Sartre