“The master of the short phrase and the long form…” is Saul Bellow, who has been repeatedly called the most significant English-language writer of the second half of the 20th century. His talent was recognized by the highest literary award in the United States, the Pulitzer Prize, and the highest literary prize in the world, the Nobel Prize. Vanity Fair magazine rightly wrote: “Bellow is the most outstanding American prose writer along with Faulkner.” Arthur Sammler had a lot in his past - the horrors of the Holocaust, a partisan detachment, an amazing reunion with his daughter saved by Catholic nuns, emigration to the USA... and now he’s just a handsome old man who lives in Manhattan and brightens up his leisure time by reading philosophical books and reflects on the resettlement of earthlings to other planets. However, into this measured and calm existence, the fast-paced and violent New York of the late 60s bursts in again and again - with its rebellious students and street crime, underground abortions, lively paparazzi, contemporary artists, “free love” and other noisy, tragicomic carnival of human passions...