Saul Bellow's "Mr. Sammler's Planet"

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"Despite the fact that the protagonist Artur Sammler visits the past, present, and future in Saul Bellow's novel Mr. Sammler's Planet, Sammler is stuck spiritually and emotionally in a sort of "dead zone" which transcends time altogether. Because of the suffering he has witnessed and experienced, particularly in the Holocaust, Sammler has become a man for whom human feeling and spirituality is apparently inaccessible for the most part. Of course, we cannot blame Sammler for this condition, whether he chooses it or whether it is simply a survival mechanism. He is behaving in a way quite compatible with any individual who had undergone his horrific experiences.

As Sammler says to himself at a point halfway through the novel: "Too many inside things were ruptured. To some people, true enough, experience seemed wealth. Misery worth a lot. Horror... "

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