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Title	:	Mr. Sammler's Planet
Author	:	Saul Bellow
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	January 6th 2004 by Penguin Classics (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literature. American. Classics. Jewish

Mr. Sammler's Planet

Saul Bellow

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 3136 Users | 198 Reviews

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“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.

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Original Title:	Mr. Sammler's Planet
ISBN:	0142437832 (ISBN13: 9780142437834)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Artur Sammler, Shula Sammler, Margotte Arkin, Elya Gruner, Angela Gruner, Wallace Gruner, Lionel Feffer, Eisen, Govinda Lal
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States) New Rochelle, New York(United States) New York State(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Fiction (1971)

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One of my all-time favourites. One of those books that are oozing with metaphor and double meaning, so much so, that you are at a loss what to say to describe it. Above all, I think, a novel about humanity, centred on the metaphor of seeing. Obsessively recurring words: eye, see, look, gaze. "To see was delicious". Sammler, the main character, is one-eyed. He sees the world with the one healthy eye - and he sees crime in action, which fascinates him and stuns him. He sees violence which sickens

Published in 1970, Mr. Sammler's Planet is in some ways a book of its age, when anxiety over the state of America was at a peak: student protests, the Vietnam war, racial tensions, political assassinations, urban decline all seemed to give the times an apocalyptic character. Set against all that was the impending exploration of the moon. So Bellow comments on the Zeitgeist through the eyes of a man who has survived another apocalypse: the Holocaust. Artur Sammler has seen the worst that can be

Third or fourth reading. Published in 1970, when New York was on the precipice of bankruptcy, I felt the pessimism of the early sectionsand Sammler has every right to his pessimism, being a Holocaust survivorso readily echoed the present that I was thrown. New York, of course, was in shambles at the time. There wasnt money to paint the bridges. There wasnt money to pay the sanitation workers. Crime was rampant. You had this immense infrastructure crumbling etc. It was the time of the Sexual

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"In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who has lived to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell."Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the WindWhen I think of Mr. Sammler, do I see a hero or a villain or a victim or all at once? Does he see the world clearly or is he drowning? Is he realist or pessimist? Is he a man of yesterday, of today or of tomorrow? And does it really matter? When we start to realize that the world of

Third or fourth reading. Published in 1970, when New York was on the precipice of bankruptcy, I felt the pessimism of the early sectionsand Sammler has every right to his pessimism, being a Holocaust survivorso readily echoed the present that I was thrown. New York, of course, was in shambles at the time. There wasnt money to paint the bridges. There wasnt money to pay the sanitation workers. Crime was rampant. You had this immense infrastructure crumbling etc. It was the time of the Sexual

Artur Sammler is a 70 year old Holocaust survivor living in New York City in the late 1960's. He is distraught over the behavioral and cultural decline of the planet. All he sees happening around him, are bad things; suffering, mugging, poverty, crime and death..... His novel is full of many interesting characters as he ponders many debatable issues.