Author(s): Dr Vanashree Godbole

Abstract: It is Saul Bellow`s most anxious and apocalyptic novel.Published in spring 1970, winner of National Book Award ‘Mr. Sammler`s Plane’t presents a world characterized by apparently irreconcilable antithesis. The story of a sad one eyed old man of seventy plus is told against the background of the imminent Moon landing. European born and bred, Arthur Sammler is a septuagenarian, grew up as a product of enlightment. Mr Sammler has known about life and its complexities, about life and death and had presumably attained moral authority to utter opinions. Bellows` ideas are carefully grounded in Mr Sammler`s Planet, through subtle handling of metaphors. Despite his age Sammler is a man in motion, moving among the clutter of thoughts, revolutionary motion, the unbalancing and the maddening of man not only accentuate the extremities of human experience but also integrate them.

Keywords: Immnent, complexties, authority, metaphor, integrate.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.4.1.6