More die of heartbreak 읽기

• 영문명: A study on irony in more die of heartbreak
• 발행기관: 조선대학교 교과교육연구소
• 저자명: 최길례(Kihl Rye Choi) 홍성용(Sung Yong Hong)
• 간행물 정보: 『미래교육현장연구』교과교육연구 22권, 201~225쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2001.06.30

영문 초록

Saul Bellow’s More Die of Heartbreak is a sexual comedy which focuses on the mind of Kenneth Trachtenberg, a mind rich in contradictions and confusion. Struggling mightly to tell the story of his uncle, Benn Crader, Kenneth cannot escape the main subject-himself. At the heart of the book is sex, the farcical obsession destructive of perspective and harmony. But in telling Benn’s story of sexual tribulations, Kenneth reveals his own career of failed human relations. The Layamons, the representative family of the vulgar, materialistic world and Benn Crader, a world-renowned botanist and professor is destined to fail. Kenneth, like Moses Herzog, is one of Bellow’s intellectuals ridden with ideas. Although the story is filled with ideas, it is not a novel of ideas. Bellow explains his idea not ideologically but directly through the stages in his characters’ career. It pursues the irony of an ideal world of Kenneth, which is between the Ideal and the Real. The dismal irony dominating the book is that the theorizing of Kenneth does not simply fail to bring order to his world; instead, it is a pair of blinders making him vulnerable to the attacks of reality. The story also pursues the transcendental meaning of love. Some critics see in Benn Crader and Kenneth Trachtenberg aspects of the same individual at different points in his life.* The lofty project with Benn serves to downgrade the real, inimitable father and to turn Benn into a substitude father. The reversed irony is that the idealized master, Benn Crader becomes the justification for the limitations of the pupil, Kenneth. The irony is that Benn’s final lesson is a withdrawal. Benn’s departure for the frigid Arctic to retreat from the hot complications of his carnal and matrimonial life. The Arctic will reduce life to its simplest forms. Benn dreams of an idealized self as in Bellow’s works. Unfortunately he is too much of a modern intellectual and petty’ bourgeois to accept the realities of his vanishing dreams. He is an individual who is wounded and frustrated by the trials and anguish of life. He seems to venture avoidance by means of escaping the realities of hard life and escaping idealized self-esteem.

목차

Abstact

Ⅰ. 들어가는 말

Ⅱ. 아이러니의 양상

Ⅲ. 맺는 말

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