Mr. Sammler's Planet
By Saul Bellow“An enduring testament and prophecy.” –Chicago Sun-Times
Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a “registrar of madness,” a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities). His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. “Sorry for all and sore at heart,” he observes how greater luxury and leisure have only led to more human suffering. To Mr. Sammler—who by the end of this ferociously unsentimental novel has found the compassionate consciousness necessary to bridge the gap between himself and his fellow beings—a good life is one in which a person does what is “required of him.” To know and to meet the “terms of the contract” was as true a life as one could possibly live. At its heart, this novel is quintessential Bellow: moral, urbane, sublimely humane.
This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Stanley Crouch.
Book details
- Hardcover
- 320 pages
- English
- 0297000403
- 9780297000402
About Saul Bellow
saul bellow was born in lachine, quebec, a suburb of montreal, in 1915, and was raised in chicago. he attended the university of chicago, received his bach Read More about Saul Bellow
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