الناصرية
Volume 12, Numéro 2, Pages 104-131
2021-12-30
The Protagonist’s Resistance To The City’s Alienating Forces A Study Of Saul Bellow’s Herzog (1964) In The Light Of Louis Wirth Theory Of Urbanism
Authors : Merbah Kouider .
Abstract
The present paper attempts to explore the urban vision of Saul Bellow. In so doing, one of his fictional works (Herzog, 1964), is analyzed in order to determine precisely how the fictional city acts as a reality metaphor. More simply put, it seeks to read the selected novel in the light of Louis Wirth theory of urbanism, and strives to prove that the city in the opinion of Bellow is infernal, as it forced the protagonist to be alienated and then kept him victim and hostage in such a hostile environment, which is evidenced by its physical filth and poverty, its alcoholism, violence and organized crime, its political corruption, and its greed and the breakdown of family. As a conclusion, in spite of all these deterministic forces and social pressure imposed by the city, and in order for Moses Herzog, the protagonist, to maintain his dignity and humanism, he refused to surrender and accepted to undergo the process of resilience and resistance.
Keywords
alienation , Bellow ,Herzog , city , wirth theory, resistance
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