索尔·贝娄的小说《赫索格》中的主人公赫索格是一个芝加哥的教授,正在致力于撰写《浪漫主义与基督教》,并承受来自他的第二任妻子弃他而去的痛苦,致使他精神濒于崩溃:他的妻子与赫索格的好朋友格斯贝奇私通,并把赫索格的房子和孩子占为己有。他们还往赫索格的伤口上撒盐—散布谣言说他已经疯了。随后赫索格开始给古人、今人、活人、死人写信,而这些信从未发出。这些信就是赫索格梦中呓语记录和见证。 Hercules, the protagonist of Saul Bellow’s novel Herzog, is a Chicago professor dedicated to writing Romanticism and Christianity and enduring the pain of abandoning him from his second wife , Resulting in a verge of collapse: his wife became acquainted with Herzog’s good friend Gusbech and occupied Herzog’s house and her children. They also salted Herzog’s wounds - spreading rumors that he was crazy. Then Herzog began writing to the ancients, present-day, living, dead, and none of the letters were ever sent. These letters are the records and testimonies of Herzog’s dreams.