当代世界中的浮士德——论贝娄笔下知识分子的精神焦虑及其激励作用

索尔·贝娄是一位典型的思想型、学者型的作家。在小说中，贝娄比较深刻地揭示了当代西方世界存在的危机，特别是知识分子的精神危机。这些知识分子孤独、苦闷、忧郁、迷惘，陷入极端的焦虑之中。但他们并没有失去生存的信念，而是在艰难的挣扎中寻找着自我拯救的路途，因而成为当代世界中的“浮士德”。

The Faust of Contemporary Society——The Rootage and Incentive of Anxiety in Intellectuals of Bellow's Novels

Saul Bellow was a typical author of thinking-type and scholarly-type. In his novels, Bellow revealed profoundly crisis, particularly the Spiritual crisis of the intellectuals existed in the contemporary Western world. These intellectuals did not lose their faith in the survival and looked for the means to the self-rescuing in their difficult struggle, although they were lonely, agonizing, sullen, perplexed and in the extreme anxious. so they had become the ＂Faust. ＂ of the contemporary world.