Saul Bellow’s Dangling Man: Dimensions of Spirituality, Masculinity and Materialism in Men-Women Relationship

Abstract

Saul Bellow (1915-2005), a Canadian-American, Jewish writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. His artistic technique captured important elements of human relationship such as consciousness, inner order, and the quest for ultimate or true meaning of existence. It may be his own spiritual quest that he manifests in the character of his protagonists who are mostly males. The main focus on Saul Bellow’s treatment of particular aspects of human relationship such as the dimensions of Spirituality, Masculinity, and Materialism in Men-Women relationship, his position as a neo-transcendentalist is firmly established in conclusion.