No Media

This item doesn’t have any media yet

Mr Sammler's Planet

2007 | Fiction & Poetry

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). His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. "Sorry for all and sore at heart," he observes how greater luxury and leisure have only led to more human suffering. 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 one in which a person does what is "required of him." To know and to meet the "terms of the contract" was as true a life as one could live.



Published by Penguin Books Ltd

Edition Unknown
ISBN 9780141188812
Language N/A

Images And Data Courtesy Of: Penguin Books Ltd.
This content (including text, images, videos and other media) is published and used in accordance with Fair Use.