Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s
- Setting: New York City and its suburbs, Poland, and Israel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Values
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Artur Sammler, a seventy-six-year-old Polish Jew of British education and temperament living in New York. Sammler survived the Nazi mass murder of European Jews during World War II, crawling out of a mass grave and leaving the machine-gunned body of his dead wife behind. A tall, slender, and slightly stooped intellectual, Sammler observes the world with brutal clarity through one eye, the other having been crushed by a rifle butt during the war. Something of a voyeur, Sammler is fascinated by and yet highly critical of contemporary life and its barbarous,...
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