Mr. Sammler's Planet

10 hrs. 54 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Saul Bellow

Narrator Kirill Petrov

Description

Master of the short phrase and the grand form… “—That is Saul Bellow, repeatedly called the most significant English-language writer of the second half of the twentieth century. His talent has been recognized with the highest literary award in the USA—the Pulitzer Prize—and the world’s highest literary prize— the Nobel Prize. In Vanity Fair, it was rightly said: “Bellow— the most outstanding American prose writer alongside Faulkner.” In Arthur Zammel’s past, there was much: the horrors of the Holocaust, a partisan unit, an astonishing reunion with his daughter saved by Catholic nuns, emigration to the United States… and now he is simply a respectable old man who lives on Manhattan and fills his leisure time by reading philosophical books and pondering the relocation of Earthlings to other planets. Yet again and again, this measured, calm existence is violently interrupted by the swift and unruly New York of the late 1960s—with its rebellious student youth and street crime, underground abortions, snappy paparazzi, relevant artists, “free love,” and other noisy, tragicomic carnivals of human passions…