Herzog 관념적 세계와 유대적 수용

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Herzog confines himself to an idealistic world, totally committed, through his intellectual research, to his ideal role of saving the modern man in his predicament. He is alienated from real life, and finally cuckolded by his wife and his closest friend. This failure in his private life leads him to a Jewish consciousnes of man and his world.
His past Jewish family life is the source of the new consciousness, and he tries to restore his family relationships. In his effort to get out of his personal dilemma and reorganize his own family, he gradually understands the true meaning of human existence and its relatedness. Through this new understanding he comes to get a new vision of himself, and accept his responsibilites for his family and other people.
The overall perspective of Bellow's novels is essentially Jewish, particularly in its moral concern. He tries to combine the Jewish and the American to present an optimistic view of man and of the world for the salvation of Jews and Gentiles alike in the modem predicament. In Herzog, he adopts the Jewish consciousness of man and, emphasizing its humanistic moral aspect, develops it into a Jewish humanism.