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Plot synopsis. 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). "Sorry for all and sore at heart," he observes how ...
- Saul Bellow
- United States
- 1970
- Mel Williamson
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. Sammler's love of Eckhart immediately established a bond with me. We are both Jewish, of the same age, and devoted students of the Meister.
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Mr. Sammler’s Planet, novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1970. It won the National Book Award for fiction in 1971. The setting is New York City during the politically tumultuous late 1960s. The intellectual Mr. Sammler, an elderly Polish Holocaust survivor, has been damaged both physically and.
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Jan 6, 2004 · Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970) was fairly interesting until about a quarter of the way to the end when Saul Bellow puts a tranquilizer dart into the plot with an extended philosophical conversation between the title character, Holocaust survivor Artur Sammler, and an Indian intellectual named Dr. Lal, whose unpublished book about lunar ...
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- Saul Bellow
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- Penguin Classics
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About Mr. Sammler’s Planet “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).
Nov 13, 2015 · 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, Sammler's love of Eckhart immediately established a bond with me. We are both Jewish, of the same age, and devoted students of the Meister.
