Abstract:
Abstract: Modern writers such as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway,
Sigmund Freud, Samuel Becket, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Joyce, Lawrence,
and Eliot directly influenced the form, content, and style of Saul Bellow’s
novels, but Bellow’s approach towards existentialism as a literary mode
was against the tradition. Saul Bellow in his novels shows that at the inside
of existential alienation his protagonists remain optimistic till the end. His
stories end not in fragments of frustration, but with a redemptive vision of
humanity. The thesis of the paper at hand is to demonstrate and establish
how Saul Bellow manipulates his fictionist approaches in the novels
Dangling Man, The Victim and Seize the Day, being influenced by the
philosophy of existentialism, and how much he is different in his approach
compared to other traditional existentialist writers
