Study Of Romantic Tendencies In Saul Bellow’s Novels

Romanticism is recognized as having a permanent earthly meaning world cultural phenomenon. It to critique of enlightenment as the starting point, tries to break the inherent essence, liberate imprisoned human imagination and raw emotion, the recovery of human to the traditional art of faith, realize the real world and the ideal world of the perfect unity. The romantic movement is the history of the greatest impact motion, it spreads to every aspect of the society, of later produced an extensive and far-reaching influence. In twentieth Century50, since60times, a new romantic literature trend appeared in the United States of America, many writers continuously derive nourishment from the European romantic literature and its nineteenth Century romantic literature, which lead to their works have a strong tendency of romanticism, Saul Bellow is the outstanding one. After World War II, the entire western society mostly fall into the horror, crime, turbulence, emptiness, confusion, various social problems emerge in an endless stream, people indulge in scientific, rational, imagination, rigid, literary and artistic decline. In the face of such a materialistic thought empty and chaotic era, Saul Bellow firstly inspired by traditional romanticism literature,he always put his efforts to the human living dilemma which represented by the intellectuals; Intellectuals have conventional humanitarian spirit beliefs, whether in spirit or society life appear to be misfits, which lead to the so-called" human nature crisis". Gender confusion, disorder of love and sex have attracted Bellow’s attention, pure Platonic love as well as traditional romantic love has virtually disappeared, people frantic pursuit sex overwhelming everything, Bellow believe that it’s the cause of the contemporary society the important reason of moral depravity; modern life makes people far away from nature, human nature, original nature is also shrinking, human natural emotion has been seriously distorted, which are romanticist unwilling to see. Romanticism was born based on criticism of modernity, Saul Bellow stand in this day and age wave find that, in such an era of globalization, escape are useless, meditation upon death let people find the true meaning of existence, only meet life bravely can see the hope; Social ideals of romanticist is to safe the live by art and beauty, in Bellow’s view, the meaning of "poetic of life" and "art of life "are achieving full development of human by aesthetic activities, thus, mechanization of human material in the rational world of free, ultimately promote the sound development of the human society; the creation of Fundamental purpose of creation of Bellow is pursuing the essence of life, the essence of art, the nature of the universe, spiritual life in modern society is the biggest disadvantage of neglect, through his works Bellow answer his question:the essence of life lies in the absolute spirit and eternal home unremitting pursuit, strong subject consciousness and consciousness of action are very important, try to find the bridge between the kingdom of facts to kingdom of values standards, and eventually realize the ideal and the reality Uniform, which are positive exploration by Bellow himself for helping modern humans out of existing predicament.