In his novel «Herzog», Saul Bellow represents the theme of romanticism in a new form: he sees overcoming
modern spiritual crisis by returning to romantic values. An intellectual is appearing to us in an atmosphere of pragmatism
and primitivism - Moses Herzog, professor of philosophy and a romanticist of the 20th century. The heros
character traits, themes of insanity, duplicity, guilt, death are investigated; the features of the novels style are outlined.
The philosophical comprehension of such problems as suffering, freedom, life and death, which are important
both in the past and at present, occurs through the prism of the novel's agenda.
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