Mr Sammler's Planet

Saul Bellow, Stanley Crouch

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English

Penguin
01 February 2023

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

New to PMC

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 live.

By: Saul Bellow
Introduction by: Stanley Crouch
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN: 9780141188812
ISBN 10: 0141188812
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Saul Bellow's dazzling career as a novelist has been marked with numerous literary prizes, including the 1976 Nobel Prize, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. His other books include The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, More Die of Heartbreak, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, Mr Sammler's Planet, Seize The Day and The Victim. Saul Bellow died in 2005.

Reviews for Mr Sammler's Planet

Bellows oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. (Bryan Appleyard, ""Sunday Times,"" London) ""Bellow's oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary."" (Bryan Appleyard, ""Sunday Times,"" London) ""Bellow's oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary.""