The romantic spirit in Saul BeIIow’s The Dean’s December. El espíritu romántico en The Dean’s December, de Saul BeIlow

Resumen

The Jewish-American novelist Saul Bellow (Lachine, Canada 1915) has been writing for six decades. Within this time span, he has shown his concern in both his fiction and non-fiction works for the major issues that man has raised throughout the history of humankind such as the position of the individual in the world, history and death, among others. In this paper, I have analysed one of Below’s costants in his novels from a romantic perspective: the need his characters feel to escape from the alienation atmosphere of the city to nature so as to come to terms both with themselves and the world. In order to carry out this task, I have focused on Below’s allusions to the romantic poets William Blake, P. B. Shelley and W. B. Yeats because they all criticize the fragmentation the modern world is going through.