Word: sammler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sammler's Planet...
Despite its geopolitical subject, the result is a typical Bellow production: part meditation, part crank letter, tinged with the doubt of Ecclesiastes and the faith of Moses, full of quicksilver insights and deep Talmudic scholarship. It is as if the Messrs. Sammler, Humboldt and Herzog collaborated on a travel-cum-history book, pulling in several directions to keep it aloft...
...likely to gasp at the wisecracking Borscht Belt comic who hoofs onstage during parts of Humboldt's Gift. The picaresque hero of The Adventures of Augie March (1953) is a brash New World kid, while a wise Old World man fills the title role of Mr. Sammler's Planet...
...into a jungle and leaves human beings cut off from each other and the past? When he is advised to be himself, young Augie March replies: "I have always tried to become what I am. But what if what I am by nature isn't good enough?" Mr. Sammler, the aging survivor of European culture, contemplates the result of barely two centuries of galloping individualism: "The idea of the uniqueness of the soul. An excellent idea. A true idea. But in these forms? In these poor forms? Dear...
...honorary Doctor of Letters degrees were awarded this morning. Saul Bellow, the author of Mister Sammler's Planet. Herzog, Henderson the Rain King and The Adventures of Augie March, among others, is generally regarded as one of American's finest writers. Age 57, he was born in Lachine, Quebec, in 1915, and received a B.S. from Northeastern University...