『허조그』속에 나타난 지식인의 고뇌

• 영문명: An Intellectual's Agony in Herzog
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 송창호(Chang-ho Song)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제91호, 37~56쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.06.30

영문 초록

Bellow depicts Herzog in Herzog as an intellectual but ordinary citizen who has been broken down by various dilemmas in modern society. His dilemmas include all from his private sufferings to whole human difficulties. To overcome such difficulties, Herzog tries to evaluate even Madeleine, his ex-wife, and Gersbach, his friend and Madeleine's lover, objectively. One of the important things that Herzog lives along with following the indicates of his conscience is his Jewish heritage. Herzog's Jewish heritage always puts a burden of guilt on him, and it causes complications in his mind. He has a double-faced character. He is the defender of Jewish family values, but at the same time he is a rebel against those values--a renegade from the faiths as well. Whenever he violates the traditional Jewish heritage, Herzog falls into a feeling of liability of guilt easily. Accordingly, although much of the traditional heritage is inapplicable or even anachronic, he thinks the Jewishness based on the historical and religious tradition can help the modern man to overcome alienation, fear, pain, and weakness in his life. After many sufferings, Herzog realizes the importance of cooperative relationship between the individual and society through the Jewish family's viewpoint, and he finally seeks and broadens the recovery of self through self-recognition within a community.

키워드

솔 벨로우 패로디 현실교육자 유태계 미국인 도덕적 매조키스트 Herzog Saul Bellow parody reality instructor American Jew moral masochist.