在第二次世界大战后的西方文坛,美国著名的犹太作家索尔·贝娄(Saul Bellow,1915—)的名字特别引人注目。早在六十年代,当贝娄的长篇小说《赫尔索格》(1964)发表时,著名的文学史家坎利夫就称他为“当代仍活着的最优秀作家”。到了七十年代,贝娄又先后出版了长篇小说《赛姆勒先生的行星》(1970)和《洪堡的礼物》(1975)等作品。一九七六年,瑞典皇家科学院为表彰他“对当代文化富于人性的理解和精妙的分析”,授 In the Western literary world after World War II, the name of the famous American Jewish writer Saul Bellow (1915-) was particularly striking. As early as the 1960s, when Bellow’s novel Herzog (1964) was published, well-known literary historian Kanliv called him “the best writer alive today.” By the seventies, Bellow published works such as the novel “Mr. Seymour’s Planet” (1970) and “Humboldt’s Gift” (1975). In 1976, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences celebrated his “Understanding and Exquisite Analysis of the Humanity of Contemporary Culture”