Saul Bellow,Stanley Crouch
â€œAn enduring testament and prophecy.â€ â€“,Chicago Sun-Times, Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a â€œregistrar of madness,â€ a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities).Â  His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul.Â  â€œSorry for all and sore at heart,â€ he observes how greater luxury and leisure have only led to more human suffering. To Mr. Sammlerâ€”who by the end of this ferociously unsentimental novel has found the compassionate consciousness necessary to bridge the gap between himself and his fellow beingsâ€”a good life is one in which a person does what is â€œrequired of him.â€ To know and to meet the â€œterms of the contractâ€ was as true a life as one could possibly live.Â  At its heart, this novel is quintessential Bellow: moral, urbane, sublimely humane., This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Stanley Crouch.
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Mr. Sammler's Planet