Planet gospodina Sammlera
Artur Sammler is a Polish Jew who spent his youth in London, but the war found him in Poland. He escaped from the collective execution by firing squad with one eye. After twenty years of living in America, he experiences a complete breakdown in life.
Sammler, like almost all modern heroes, is characterized by irony and skepticism, while on the other hand, his selfless and irrational love makes him closer to Prince Mishkin and Pierre Bezukhov than to any Anglo-Saxon hero. Force and recklessness terrify him above all else. Bellow confronts him with the crime and violence of the American metropolis, the Israeli-Arab war, discord and death in the family, the new youth who reject civilized forms of behavior and in whose sexual freedom he does not see liberation from puritan restraint, but a desperate and futile search for meaning in easy and frivolous "freedoms". This is a moral, perhaps even moralistic book, which, despite its erudition and humanity, is a crushing condemnation of our times. Artur Sammler is, in a way, the consciousness and conscience of his age.
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