The Narrative Ethics On Saul Bellow's Short Stories

Saul Bellow creats a lot of work all by his life,on his writing on short stories,the main feature is the intensive ethical and morality. The using of multi-view,personal change,narrative context,collage-style narrative structure making the narrative with a wealth of context. This article on Saul Bellow's short stories that has been translated into Chinese based on close reading, making use of ethical literary criticism, absorbing the social and historical criticism and narrative research findings, try to explain how the ethics demands form and covey to readers both in form and content.The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part revolve around the Jewish, owing to the influence of Jewish culture and the sincere feelings of the Jews, the theme of Bellow's work is the distinctive Jewish. Relying on Jewish ethics that emphasized on justice,atonement,God's love, in face of the lonely and lost,Bellow promote a positive,courageous way of life by his novel, criticism the desperate emptiness and the negative attitudes of life.The second part of this thesis centre on modernity,dealing with the dilemma that contemporaries encountered. As a humanist,Bellow calls for the return of traditional morality through his work,with it to heal the modern disease,this return not only carry important implication to ethics,but also reflect the author's aesthetic feelings. In the third part,in terms of narratology,the thesis discuss how the text convey the ethics meaning by the form itself. The short stories by Soul Bellow follow briefly the Realism principle that is marked by"specific,faithful",using the perspectives shifting,breakthrough the time and space's consistency by intersection and concatenation, combine lots of independent scenes by the montage technique, weakened the plot of the novel and figures personalities,building a meaningful and lyrical mood around his work,but all these slightly messy sceans and layout are guided by the narrative organizer named"author", Bellow put himself in reliable narrator's situation,trade off the values of ethics and morality by omniscient narration and character's perspective,embody the humanistic concern by a virtuous writer.