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Mr. Sammler's Planet is a 1970 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1971.
Jan 1, 2001 · In Saul Bellow's National Book Award winning novel, "Mr Sammler's Planet", Artur Sammler, a 74-year old Holocaust survivor, is a devoted reader of the medieval German mystical philosopher, Meister Eckhart.
The intellectual Mr. Sammler, an elderly Polish Holocaust survivor, has been damaged both physically and psychologically; he has lost his vision in one eye and suffers from a sense of emotional and intellectual alienation. With his intact eye, he views the world, its people, and their insanities.
Mar 19, 2012 · As with most of Bellow’s fiction, the plot of Mr. Sammler’s Planet is both manically inventive and oddly desultory. The book chronicles a couple of days in the life of Sammler, as he prepares...
Mr. Sammler's Planet. Saul Bellow. Odyssey Editions, Nov 13, 2015 - Fiction - 268 pages. Who is Mr. Sammler? A Jewish intellectual educated in Western philosophy, a one-eyed Holocaust...
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...
Apr 4, 2013 · 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...
