Overwhelming read, Hard not to be over awed by Sammler s urge and tendency to condense the vast disparate lives events and spoken words into few lines of meaningful summarization, After all each one of us try to do the same when confronted with questions of difficult kind while dealing with vagaries of Life.
In author s own words, As we struggle to summarize, life speed past us at breathtakingly, only to pause at the moments we can remember. This is spectacularly inversed by Man in 20th century. He is trying to create best set of moments, best set of things, best set of choices for himself as an individual leaving anything else worth pursuing as a secondary choice creating the unintended 'banality of the best' further fuelling discontent. Astonishingly mundane drab dull monotony repetition are chosen by the great minds of our generation to connect with the infinite, while lesser mortals wrestle to bring the infinite into our best moments and list of things.
Adding to so many words already spoken , each man deeply knows his terms of contract for the life of what he does and how and why ?
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Sammler -Shula
Black pickpocket -Feffer - Eisen, Israel
Eisen - Shula
Elya Gruner - Mrs Elya Son Wallace - Daughter Angela -
Margotte
Dr Govinda Lal
Emil the rolls Royce driver from the mafioso