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Return to Ordinary in Herzog

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Song, Jeung-Hyeon

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In Saul Bellow’s novels, the writer’s personal criticism of existentialism recurs. Herzog, one of Bellow’s major works, is a novel in which writer’s critique of existentialism is overtly manifested. Herzog, the hero of the novel, criticizes Heidegger’s existentialism, so-called “the fall into quotidian,” emphasizing the importance of the ordinariness of reality. However, while Herzog emphasizes the preciousness of everyday life, he lives a life that is in conflict with what he believes in. In other words, he devoted himself to pursuing the intellectual goals and was living away from everyday life by trying to see reality based on his intellectual and ideal world. However, the main character, who lives a life of incongruity as such, goes through the process of returning to “ordinary” by various dramatic settings set by the writer. In short, Herzog realizes that the intellectual world he created is an illusion that is far away from the ordinary. In the end, he returns to his ordinariness of his life through the recollection of what he saw and experienced during his childhood, the real and immediate awareness of the reality that is actually happening, and the sensual love with his lover.

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I. Introduction
 II. Derailed from the Ordinary
 III. Return to the Ordinary
  3.1. Return by Flashback
  3.2 Return by Experiencing the Real
  3.3. Return by Ramona: a Sensual Mentor
 IV. Conclusion
 Works Cited
 Abstract

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  • Song, Jeung-Hyeon Kangwon National University

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