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Mr. Sammler's Planet

Mr. Sammler's Planet

Bellow, Saul
Crouch, Stanley

Paperback

Series: Penguin Classics

Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0142437832
ISBN13: 9780142437834
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jan 6 2004
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.02 Depth: 7.88
Language: English
Winner of the National Book Award in Fiction

An enduring testament and prophecy. --Chicago Sun-Times

A Penguin Classic

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. At its heart, this novel is quintessential Bellow: moral, urbane, sublimely humane.

This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Stanley Crouch.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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