Resumen de Alienation and marginality in Saul Bellow's Early Novels
Considered as the best or, at least, one of the three best postwar American novelists, Saul Bellow (Lachine, 1915) has been writing fiction and non-fiction for over fifty years in the light of major philosophical and literary movements such as Romanticism, Transcendentalism and Existentialism, among others. The present essay concentrates on his first two novels, Dangling Man (1944) and The Vicihn (1947), which were composed during World War II and which have been traditionally regarded as existentialist works. In these two novels it will be analized the behaviour of the Bellovian hero, a marginalised and alienated individual who tries to overcome his sense of failure by coming to terms with himself and with society.
