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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.
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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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Mr. Sammler’s Planet is the story of an elderly Holocaust survivor adrift in a sea of moral ambiguity and inconsistency in the turbulence of late 1960s New York. One day he witnesses a well-dressed pickpocket plying his trade; a series of interactions with the thief follow.
Novel by Saul Bellow, 1970. Artur Sammler of Saul Bellow 's Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) is a Holocaust survivor living in New York City. Forced to strip naked, Mr. Sammler was shot along with his wife and many other Jews in a pit he and the others had dug in the woods in Poland.
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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Mar 19, 2012 · But Bellow’s most significant, and problematic, attempt to write about the Holocaust came in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, which appeared in 1970 and remains even now his most troubling novel.
Nov 13, 2015 · 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 survivor,...
