Article
Mr. Sammler's Planet: The Terms of the Covenant
English Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1978
Disciplines
Abstract
For Saul Bellow the essential quest is spiritual: it is a search for humanness in a world that daily assaults and denies such a search. This struggle to be human is the author's one story and the various versions of that same story simply indicate the individual progress each protagonist—Joseph, Asa, Wilhelm, Herzog, Sammler—makes on that journey. To find the genuinely human is the hero's task.
Citation Information
Michelle Loris. "Mr. Sammler's Planet: The Terms of the Covenant" (1978) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michelle_loris/5/
Previously published. Reprinted here with publisher permission. Loris, Michelle. Renascence 30.4 (Summer 1978): 217-23.