Saul Bellow: Novels 1970-1982 (LOA #209): Mr. Sammler's Planet

Saul Bellow: Novels 1970-1982 (LOA #209): Mr. Sammler's Planet / Humboldt's Gift / The Dean's December (Library of America Saul Bellow Edition)
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The third volume of The Library of America edition of Saul Bellowâ€™s complete novels collects three essential works:Â Mr. Sammlerâ€™s PlanetÂ (1970),Â Humboldtâ€™s GiftÂ (1975), andÂ The Deanâ€™s DecemberÂ (1982). These novels, written in the period of Bellowâ€™s greatest literary and popular acclaimâ€”he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976â€”are unsparing yet humane, and range widely in their philosophical and cultural concerns. They offer the indispensable voice of a great American raconteur and thinker.

InÂ Mr. Sammlerâ€™s Planet, the anarchic forces of late-1960s America are set loose on Artur Sammler, a highly cultured septuagenarian and European Ã©migrÃ© who seeks â€œwith God, to be free from the bondage of the ordinary and the finite.â€ A Holocaust survivor living out his latter days in Manhattan, Sammler endures the cityâ€™s everyday barbarism, as shocking as it is casual, and must contend with absurd complications when a manuscript goes missing.

Humboldtâ€™s GiftÂ depicts the deep and troubled friendship between the tormented poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and the renowned writer Charlie Citrine. Humboldt has died in squalid obscurity, but for Citrine the memory of their earlier days persists as counterpoint to a middle age studded with difficulties: a messy divorce, a demanding mistress, and the attentions of a Chicago hoodlum who claims that Charlie has cheated him. Writing of the bookâ€™s â€œrich and suggestiveâ€ narrative voice, Sven Birkerts observes, â€œThere is a feeling when reading this novel that a tightly rolled sultanâ€™s carpet has splashed open before our eyes.â€

InÂ The Deanâ€™s December, Albert Corde experiences totalitarianism firsthand when he travels to Bucharest to visit his dying mother-in-law. As a college dean in Chicago he has attracted controversy through his journalism and his role in a racially charged murder trial. Alternating between Romanian and American settings, the novel is a profound indictment of official hypocrisy and corruption on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ€™s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ€™s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2010-09-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598530797

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2010-09-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598530797

Saul Bellow: Novels 1970-1982 (LOA #209): Mr. Sammler's Planet / Humboldt's Gift / The Dean's December (Library of America Saul Bellow Edition)

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