Mr. Sammler's Planet (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Values, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, New York City, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Holocaust, Jewish, Israel or Israelis, Poland or Polish people, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: New York, NY, London, England, Israel, Poland
Mr. Sammler's Planet explores the typical Bellovian conflict of accepting the world on its own terms while recognizing and adhering to higher spiritual values. The “planet” of Mr. Sammler is not the moon—a plan for the colonization of which has been proposed by his scientist friend—but the very earth itself. Moreover, Mr. Sammler, an aged, one-eyed Polish Jew now living in New York with his daughter, is not an astronomer by profession but by a philosophical state of mind. With his one good eye he peers through the telescope of history, exploring the cultural landscape of...
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