Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional
lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a
"registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among
people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings,
endless possibilities). His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the
degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of
the human soul. "Sorry for all and sore at heart," he observes how
greater luxury and leisure have only led to more human suffering.
To Mr. Sammler-who by the end of this ferociously unsentimental
novel has found the compassionate consciousness necessary to bridge
the gap between himself and his fellow beings-a good life is one in
which a person does what is "required of him." To know and to meet
the "terms of the contract" was as true a life as one could live.
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