Abstract
51 7. ABSTRACT Few American novelists talk and write about the universities and the aca demic world as much as Saul Bellow does. He reiterates his unhappiness with the university and the academic world in his lectures, interviews, essays and fictions. He has done so since the early years in his career. In this study, we attempted to give a concise information about Bellow's ideas and dissatisfaction with the intellectual and scientific world as reflected in his novels The Dean December and Mr Sammlers Planet. In The Dean's December Bellow practices a new style by using a kind of non-fictional language. The novel is also different in that the character depicted does not resemble his characters in his early novels; He presents his most worldly and mature protagonist Dean Albert Corde and reflects his ideas concerning science and scientists. Albert Corde serves a sort of mouthpiece in the novel and voices up Bellow's ideas of intellectual life, academicians, scientists in general and social scientists in particular, materialistic view of life and its shortcomings. Albert Corde has an aes thetic upbringing and fails to find life to fit his deep intellectual accumulation. He is aware of the scientific atheism and the dangers inherit in scientific rationalism. He has a great sense of moral and cultural responsibility which corresponds to Bellow's. Bellows restrains from giving simplistic, prescriptive solutions to the centu ries old problems concerning intellectuals. Instead he creates Albert Corde who has a deep insight into matters; shows the defects and shortsightedness of modern campus men. Key Words: Bellow, University, Science, Scientist, Enlightenment