Word: sammler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler reflected gloomily that killing is "one of the luxuries. No wonder that princes had so long reserved the right to murder with impunity." Yet there has always been a democracy of homicide. Ever since Cain slew Abel, murder has been a classless crime. The East Harlem father who hurls his children from the roof is paralleled across the Hudson in the affluent New Jersey suburbs: a Westfield insurance salesman named John List was indicted last winter on a charge of shooting his wife, mother and three children and ranging four of the bodies side...
...Sammler's Planet, by Saul Bellow. A highly intelligent example of a rare form, the philosophical novel...
...Friend of Kafka, Singer's fifth book of short stories, he writes of Americans, but they are emigres for whom Hell is a city very much like New York. Physical inhabitants of Mr. Sammler's planet, they are nevertheless very much at home in a Kantian world where space and time obey the appellate court of perception. A woman enters a Manhattan cafeteria and sees Hitler. Later, after her death, she herself is seen, strolling Broadway. A mischievous editor sends an obscure philosopher love letters from a mythical heiress-and the joke blossoms into a great tragedy...
...Sammler's Planet, Bellow
...Woman, Fowles (2) 3. Deliverance, Dicket (3) 4. Great Lion of God, Caldwell (5) 5. Losing Battles, Welty (9) 6. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (4) 7. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin (7) 8. The Godfather, Puzo (6) 9. The Anderson Tapes, Sanders 10. Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow...