Philip Roth Libri

Seymour Levov è alto, biondo e atletico. Malgrado sia di origine ebraica al liceo lo chiamano "lo Svedese". Negli anni '50 sposa miss New Jersey, avviandosi ad una vita di lavoro nella fabbrica del padre. Nella sua splendida villa cresce Merry, la figlia cagionevole e balbuziente. Finché arriva il giorno in cui le contraddizioni del paese raggiungono la soglia del suo rifugio, devastandola. La guerra del Vietnam è al culmine. Merry sta terminando la scuola e ha l'obiettivo di "portare la guerra in casa". Letteralmente

Azoto, carbonio, idrogeno, oro, arsenico... Sono ventuno gli elementi chimici che dànno il titolo ai racconti di questo libro, e ventuno i capitoli di un'autobiografia che per affinità e accostamenti corre sul filo di una storia personale e collettiva, affondando le radici nell'oscura qualità della materia, raccontando le storie di un mestiere «che è poi un caso particolare, una versione piú strenua del mestiere di vivere». È questo il gigantesco minuscolo gioco che lega osservazione, memoria, scrittura: ne esce ricostruita la vicenda di una formazione maturata negli anni del fascismo, poi nelle drammatiche vicende della guerra: di chi, partendo dalla concretezza del lavoro, impara a capire le cose e gli uomini, a prendere posizione, a misurarsi con ironia e autoironia. Un De rerum natura metafora dell'esistenza, in cui emergono, nel volgersi del racconto, stranezze, fallimenti e riuscite imprevedibili.

Il ritratto di un burattinaio "maestro di inganni, di artifici e di irrealtà" e un comico e dissacrante viaggio tra i fantasmi del passato sono al centro del romanzo che ha valso a Philip Roth il National Book Award. Un uomo brutto e anziano che ha perso le sue buone occasioni per sfondare nella vita: potrebbe essere un fallito, insomma. Ma Mickey Sabbath non lo è affatto: a sessantaquattro anni, coltiva da piú di un decennio un legame "di stupefacente impudicizia e altrettanto stupefacente riservatezza" con una donna slava che tradisce regolarmente; ha fondato il Teatro degli Indecenti, attirandosi critiche e antipatie; e, piú in generale, ha speso ogni sua energia nel tentativo di costruirsi una vita libera (e libertina), preferendo la sfrenatezza alla pace, la sfrontatezza all'educazione. O, almeno, cosí crede: perché Drenka, l'amante che per tredici anni ha infiammato i suoi sensi e le sue fantasie, muore. E anche se "ne il turbinoso monologo interiore, ne la sovrabbondanza di autosovversione, ne anni di letture sulla morte, ne l'amara esperienza di tribolazioni, perdite, avversità e dolore rendono piu facile a un uomo di quel genere (o forse a un uomo di qualsiasi genere) usare il cervello", Sabbath è comunque costretto a correre lungo il filo della memoria, a recuperare il passato e i personaggi che, nel bene e nel male, l'hanno popolato.

Una sera di dicembre del 1956, sulla soglia di casa di Emanuel Isidore Lonoff appare un giovane scrittore di belle speranze, Nathan Zuckerman, venuto a porgere ammirato omaggio all'uomo che considera il proprio maestro. Lonoff vive in quasi totale reclusione sulle colline del New England, «leggendo, scrivendo e guardando la neve», con la moglie Hope e una misteriosa ragazza sopravvissuta all'Olocausto. Ma Zuckerman non immagina ancora di quali avvenimenti strani e burrascosi sarà testimone nelle poche ore in cui verrà ospitato in quella casa.

Travolto da desideri che ripugnano alla sua coscienza e da una coscienza che ripugna i suoi desideri, Alex Portnoy ripercorre con l'analista, in un monologo-fiume, la propria vita. A partire dalla famiglia ebraica: il padre, un assicuratore sempre vissuto in funzione della propria stitichezza e la madre, «che radar, quella donna! Mi controllava le addizioni in cerca di errori; i calzini alla ricerca di buchi; le unghie, il collo, ogni piega o grinza del mio corpo alla ricerca di sporcizia». Quel che ad Alex però interessa piú di tutto è il sesso. E dopo un'adolescenza trascorsa chiuso a chiave nel bagno, «a spremersi il pisello nella tazza del gabinetto», Alex vive una storia dietro l'altra, sempre con ragazze non ebree, quasi che penetrando loro potesse anche penetrarne l'ambiente sociale: «come se scopando volessi scoprire l'America. Conquistare l'America». Fino alla storia di sesso travolgente e sfrenato con la «Scimmia» e all'epilogo, come ultima spiaggia, in Israele, dove Alex, totalmente incredulo, si accorge di come lí sia tutto ebraico. «Questa è la mia vita, la mia unica vita, e la sto vivendo da protagonista di una barzelletta ebraica».

Indignazione racconta dell'educazione di un giovane uomo alle terrificanti opportunità e ai bizzarri impedimenti della vita nell'America del 1951. È una storia di inesperienza, stoltezza, resistenza intellettuale, scoperta sessuale, coraggio ed errore. È una storia narrata con tutta l'energia inventiva e l'arguzia di cui Roth è maestro, e un ulteriore poderoso tassello nella sua analisi dell'impatto della storia americana sulla vita di individui vulnerabili.

Nathan Zuckerman torna a New York dopo undici anni di isolamento nel New England, dove ha vissuto come scrittore, lontano da voci, media e minacce. Rientrando nella città, Zuckerman incontra tre persone che infrangono la sua solitudine. Il primo incontro è con una giovane coppia a cui offre uno scambio di case: loro lasciano Manhattan post-11 settembre per il suo rifugio di campagna, mentre lui torna alla vita cittadina. In questo scambio, Zuckerman desidera anche un'altra connessione: quella con la giovane Jamie, il cui fascino lo riporta verso l'intimità e il gioco tra cuore e corpo. Il secondo contatto è con Amy Bellette, musa del suo primo eroe letterario, E. I. Lonoff. Sebbene malata e invecchiata, Amy cerca di preservare la memoria di Lonoff, che ha mostrato a Zuckerman la via della vocazione creativa. Infine, incontra un aspirante biografo di Lonoff, un giovane pronto a tutto per scoprire il "grande segreto" del maestro. Coinvolto in un dramma di amore, perdita, desiderio e rivalità, Zuckerman esplora nuove dimensioni della sua vita e della sua scrittura, arricchendo l'universo narrativo di Philip Roth.

"Con l'amante la vita quotidiana passa in secondo piano" scrive Roth ed esibendo tutta la sua abilità di brillante osservatore della passione umana, presenta in "Inganno" il mondo circoscritto dell'intimità adulterina con una schiettezza che non ha eguali nella narrativa americana. Al centro di "Inganno" ci sono due adulteri nel loro nascondiglio. Lui è uno scrittore americano di mezza età che vive a Londra, di nome Philip, lei è una donna inglese spigliata, intelligente e colta, compromessa da un matrimonio umiliante a cui, a poco più di trent'anni, è già quasi, a malincuore, rassegnata. L'azione del libro consiste nelle loro conversazioni, per lo più schermaglie amorose prima e dopo aver fatto l'amore. Questo dialogo acuto, ricco, scherzoso, inquisitorio, "che si muove" come scrive Hermione Lee "su una scala di dolore che va da un furioso sconcerto a una stoica gaiezza" è quasi l'unico ingrediente di questo libro, e l'unico di cui si senta il bisogno.

Tutto è finito per Simon Axler, il protagonista del nuovo conturbante libro di Philip Roth. Simon, uno dei più grandi attori teatrali della sua generazione, ha superato i sessant'anni e ha perso la sua magia, il suo talento e la sua sicurezza. Quando sale sul palcoscenico si sente un pazzo e si vede un idiota. La sua fiducia nelle proprie capacità è evaporata; s'immagina che la gente rida di lui; non riesce più a fingere di essere qualcun altro. «È scomparso qualcosa di fondamentale». La moglie se n'è andata, il pubblico l'ha abbandonato, il suo agente non sa come convincerlo a tornare in scena. In questo atroce resoconto di un'inspiegabile e terrificante autodistruzione, emerge il contraltare di un insolito desiderio erotico, certo una consolazione in quella vita spogliata di tutto, ma tanto rischiosa e aberrante da frustrare ogni speranza di conforto e gratificazione per puntare dritto verso un finale ancora più cupo e rovinoso. In questo lungo viaggio verso la notte, raccontato da Roth con l'inimitabile urgenza, bravura e serietà di sempre, tutti i mezzi che usiamo per convincerci della nostra solidità, tutte le rappresentazioni che nella vita diamo di noi stessi - talento, amore, sesso, speranza, energia, reputazione - vengono messi a nudo.

The best-selling author offers his observations of the physical decline and death of his own father, in a memoir of the love between father and son

Selections from nine novels following Goodbye Columbus, Roth's first book, including Letting Go, Portnoy's Complaint, and The Ghost Writer, chronicle Roth's satiric and sensitive examination of art, life, and personal crisis

Four complete works by Philip Roth in one volume. The complete comic saga of Nathan Zuckerman, his ordeals of conscience, from Manhattan, to Miami Beach, to Czechoslovakia!"Roth has transcended himself . . . . A comic genius . . . Certainly Philip Roth's finest achievement to date, eclipsing even his best single fictions . . . ZUCKERMAN BOUND binds together THE GHOST WRITER, ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND, and THE ANATOMY LESSON, adding to them as epilogue a wild short novel, THE PRAGUE ORGY, which is at once the bleakest and the funniest writing Roth has done."-- The New York Times Book Review"ZUCKERMAN BOUND proves that no one now writing can be funnier and, at the same time, more passionately serious than Philip Roth." -- Time"ZUCKERMAN BOUND shows the author's always ebullient invention and artful prose at their most polished and concentrated." -- The New Yorker

A fictional account of the persecution and suffering of the Jews. It is simple in style and full of dark humour, irony and lyricism. The author served in Moscow as a member of the Czech section of the Comintern but was later expelled from the Communist party. This is his best-known novel.

"The title novella, Goodbye, Columbus, the story of a summer romance between a poor young man from Newark and a rich Radcliffe co-ed, is both a tightly wrought tale of youthful desire and a satiric gem that takes aim at the comfortable affluence of the postwar boom. Here and in the stories that accompany it, including "The Conversion of the Jews" and "Defender of the Faith," Roth depicts Jewish lives in 1950s America with an unflinching sharpness of observation." In Letting Go, a sprawling novel set largely against the backdrop of Chicago in the 1950s, Roth portrays the moral dilemmas of young people cast precipitously into adulthood, and in the process describes a skein of social and family responsibilities as they are brought into focus by issues of marriage, abortion, adoption, friendship, and career. The novel's expansiveness provides a wide scope for Roth's gift for vivid characterization, and in his protagonist Gabe Wallach he creates a nuanced portrait of a responsive young academic whose sense of morality draws him into the ordeals of others with unforeseen consequences.Library of America #157

Originally published: New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Volume 2 in what will be the definitive 8-volume collector's edition of Philip Roth's fiction includes Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, When She Was Good, and The Breast

Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold), an idealistic Communist and uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, emerges from serving in World War II passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and unemployable. On his way to his political catastrophe, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress the exquisitely refined Eva Frame. Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll to tears and treachery. And, with Eve's dramatic revelation to a gossip columnist of her husband's 'espionage' for the Soviet Union, the relationship becomes a national scandal. Set in the heart of the McCarthy era, the story of Iron Rinn's disgrace is a story of cruelty, humiliation, betrayal and revenge; an American tragedy as only Philip Roth can conceive one - fierce and funny, eloquently rendered and deadly accurate.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers “a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal). One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, "magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history of modern America."

Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills - meet one summer and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella, the first book published by Phillip Roth, explores issues of both class and Jewish assimilation into American culture. It won the National Book Award in 1960. ©1993 Phillip Roth (P)2009

Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his playground - and on the everyday realities he faces - this title leads us through various emotions such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering, and the pain.

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A “magnificent…splendid” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral about people living out their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them even risking their lives to change their seemingly irreversible fates. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist's office in suburban New Jersey, or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, or in a church in London's West End, or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank.

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he ventures out onto the streets of Manhattan he finds himself accosted on all sides, the target of admonishers, advisers, would-be literary critics, and - worst of all - fans.

Fascinating interviews, essays, and articles spanning a quarter century on writing, baseball, American fiction, and American Jews—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century."An illuminating...glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction." — Chicago Daily NewsHere is Philip Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed, and so much more. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master, Reading Myself and Others features his famed long interview with the Paris Review .

In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating an accord with Adolf Hitler and accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic policies.

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous "One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius." —The New York Review of Books In this book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator. With excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical speculation, and a wild cast of characters, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, internationally acclaimed author of American Pastoral delivers a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness. • "Roth's best.” —Newsweek A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel. At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg.

Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, and thus freed from old attachments, is hungrily seeking new ones. He's drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate in literature, and to Libby - Paul's moody, Catholic-turned-Jewish wife. Gabe wonders: how to reconcile the ordered 'world of feeling' found in books with the anarchy of life, responsible adulthood, and his own love affairs? When Gabe meets Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, she poses the greatest challenge that he, and his moral enthusiasm, will face. Letting Go is Philip Roth's blistering first full-length novel.

In Philip Roth's intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life. With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the stubborn core of rationality that helped the Italian chemist-writer survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz. With Milan Kundera, he analyzes the mix of politics and sexuality that made him the most subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia. With Edna O'Brien, he explores the circumstances that have forced generations of Irish writers into exile. Elsewhere Roth offers appreciative portraits of two friends--the writer Bernard Malamud and the painter Philip Guston--at the end of their careers, and gives us a masterful assessment of the work of Saul Bellow. Intimate, charming, and crackling with ideas about the interplay between imagination and the writer's historical situation, Shop Talk is a literary symposium of the highest level, presided over by America's foremost novelist.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the final installment of the renowned Zuckerman series, a novel about love, mourning, desire, and animosity by “one of the greatest living American writers” (San Francisco Chronicle), the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral. Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets of New York after so many years away, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. Now Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities. Revisiting the characters from Roth's much-heralded The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost is an astounding leap into yet another phase in this great writer's oeuvre.

The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction—a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes". Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be - or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage a trios in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire.

With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. What will it take for the pain to finally leave him alone?

Gill Gamesh, John Baal, Rupert Mundys: If you've never heard of them, it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. This novel turns baseball's status as national passtime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picturesque heroism and perfidy, and ebullient wordplay.

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral and “our most accomplished novelist” (The New Yorker) turns his attention to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process

Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets he quickly makes several connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. In a rash moment, he offers to swap homes with a young couple.

Nathan Zuckerman is visiting Prague, where intellectuals come searching for Kafta, where misfits who don't submit decently to their misfortunes act out a comedy of manners in decadence. Here Zuckerman meets Olga, and brings home lessons for the American writer - lessons about oppression and resilience, laughter and Kafta, and more.

David, white-haired & over 60, is a TV culture critic & lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela, a 24-year-old student, daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who puts his life into erotic disorder & haunts him for the next eight years.

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of this fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a funny exploration of the implications of metamorphosis.

Primo Levis vidnesbyrd fra Auschwitz er tre af det 20. århundredes allervigtigste litterære værker. Den 13. december 1943 arresteres den italiensk-jødiske kemiker Primo Levi i Alperne og føres til dødslejren Auschwitz. Det er begyndelsen på en grum fortælling, om hvordan man overlever kz-lejrenes ubegribelige brutalitet og meningsløshed, om vejen tilbage til de levendes verden, om behovet for at aflægge vidnesbyrd - om behovet for at blive hørt. De tre værker er en dyster udforskning af det, vi forstår som menneskelighed fyldt med visdom og sort humor på trods. Denne udgave samler for første gang Primo Levis tre bøger om Auschwitz på dansk.

Rozhovor Ivana Klímy s americkým spisovatelem Philipem Rothem o české disidentské a emigrantské literatuře, o jejím poslání a lidech, kteří ji tvořili. Rozhovor původně vyšel v The New York Review 12. 4. 1990, česky pak knižně vyšel jako katalog k výstavě Kde domov můj?.

Situé dans les environs de Newark, à l'époque où éclate une terrible épidémie de polio, Némésis décrit avec précision le jeu des circonstances sur nos vies. Pendant l'été 1944, Bucky Cantor, un jeune homme de vingt-trois ans, vigoureux, doté d'un grand sens du devoir, anime et dirige un terrain de jeu. Lanceur de javelot, haltérophile, il a honte de ne pas avoir pris part à la guerre aux côtés de ses contemporains en raison de sa mauvaise vue. Tandis que la maladie provoque des ravages parmi les enfants qui jouent sur le terrain, Roth nous fait sentir chaque parcelle d'émotion que peut susciter une telle calamité : peur, panique, colère, perplexité, souffrance et peine. Des rues de Newark au camp de vacances rudimentaire, haut dans les Poconos, Némésis dépeint avec tendresse le sort réservé aux enfants, le glissement de Cantor dans la tragédie personnelle et les effets terribles que produit une épidémie de polio sur la vie d'une communauté de Newark, étroitement organisée autour de la famille.

Primo Levi, reduce da Auschwitz, pubblicò "Se questo è un uomo" nel 1947. Einaudi lo accolse nel 1958 nei "Saggi" e da allora viene continuamente ristampato ed è stato tradotto in tutto il mondo. Testimonianza sconvolgente sull'inferno dei Lager, libro della dignità e dell'abiezione dell'uomo di fronte allo sterminio di massa, "Se questo è un uomo" è un capolavoro letterario di una misura, di una compostezza già classiche. È un'analisi fondamentale della composizione e della storia del Lager, ovvero dell'umiliazione, dell'offesa, della degradazione dell'uomo, prima ancora della sua soppressione nello sterminio.

Ein kleiner Band mit zwei Erzählungen und einer kurzen Rede Philip Roths anläßlich eines Preises, den er erhielt, entnommen sind die Erzählungen anderen Büchern, herausgegeben wurde diese Zusammenstellung im Rahmen der Reihe "50 Jahre Rowohlt Rotations Romane".

Филип Рот (р. 1933) - признанный классик американской литературы. Это единственный писатель, трижды награжденный премией Уильяма Фолкнера. Самая нелепая и ничтожная случайность может дать трагический поворот человеческой судьбе. Так, и юного Марка череда ошибок, незаметных на первый взгляд, ввергла в кровавый хаос Корейской войны. Череда ошибок и кипящее в нем возмущение.

Ce volume explore cinquante ans d'histoire américaine au sein de la communauté juive de Newark, de l'avant-guerre aux années 1980, à travers une approche non chronologique. L'auteur aborde le mouvement de la contre-culture des années 1960, la guerre froide et la croisade anticommuniste des années 1950, ainsi que le politiquement correct des années 1970-1980. Il imagine également des années 1940 hypothétiques, marquées par la montée du fascisme et de l'antisémitisme aux États-Unis. À travers une critique acerbe de la société américaine, l'auteur analyse les mécanismes d'un individu confronté à l'imprévisible. Les personnages, face à des bouleversements majeurs, voient leurs destins se briser sous l'effondrement des illusions et des certitudes qui soutenaient leurs vies idéales, symboles du rêve américain. Quatre œuvres illustrent l'identité de l'individu pris dans la tyrannie des mythes américains, évoquant un avenir prometteur qui semblait découler d'un passé solide. Chaque génération, en dépassant les limitations des aînés, aspire à jouir pleinement des droits conférés par l'Amérique, à s'émanciper des anciennes obsessions et à vivre sans complexes parmi ses pairs.

In de vorm van een biecht vertelt de 33-jarige hoofdpersoon over zijn leven waarin hij de seksualiteit en de erotiek tot het uiterste wil beleven, hetgeen volkomen in tegenstelling is tot zijn strenge joodse opvoeding en de dwangbuis van zijn jeugd.

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich comes a richly layered novel that explores identity, exploitation, and how the burdens of history still shape our lives today.

En 1998, les révélations concernant le président divisent la nation américaine, illustrant la tragédie de Silks, qui cache un secret depuis 50 ans à sa famille.

Die Tatsachen - das sind die faktischen Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen des Autors, aus denen die fiktiven Personen und Handlungen seiner Romane entstanden sind: die Jugend im jüdischen Kleinbürgermilieu, der erste Zusammenstoß mit dem Antisemitismus, die Katastrophe einer Ehe und Erschütterungen durch den Vietnamkrieg. Und mit Verblüffung erkennt der Leser, in welchem Maße die Welt im Roman von Philip Roth der Wirklichkeit entspricht.

An acclaimed novelist presents a breathtakingly original tale of personal transformation, intertwining the lives of two disparate characters—a seasoned lawyer and a young novelist—both drawn to the Israeli desert in search of meaning. Jules Epstein, a 68-year-old man marked by ambition and a larger-than-life persona, faces a profound metamorphosis following the deaths of his parents, a long marriage's end, and retirement from his prestigious legal career. Compelled to give away his possessions, he embarks on a journey to Israel with an unclear intention to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he encounters a charismatic rabbi who believes Epstein is a descendant of King David and introduces him to his captivating daughter. She persuades him to join her film project about David's life in the desert, leading to transformative experiences. Meanwhile, a young novelist from Brooklyn, grappling with writer's block and a troubled marriage, returns to the Tel Aviv Hilton, a place steeped in her history. Seeking inspiration, she meets a retired literature professor who offers her an intriguing project, plunging her into a mystery that reshapes her understanding of life. Rich in humor and insight, this novel explores themes of metamorphosis and self-discovery, urging readers to look beyond the visible toward the infinite.

Philip Roth forteller her historien til Seymore Levov. Ved første øyekast framstår han som en ekte amerikansk suksesshistorie. Han var berømt idrettshelt som ung, giftet seg med en tidligere Miss New Jersey, overtar farens hanskefabrikk, og kjøper seg et stort, idyllisk hus på landet. I 1968 tar Seymores amerikanske drøm brått slutt. Datteren Merry utløser en bombe som tar livet av en uskyldig mann. Seymore er revet mellom farens moralske absolutter og datterens sinte avvisninger, og framstår som en ganske alminnelig mann som helt uventet befinner seg i en vanskelig situasjon. "Amerikansk pastorale" inngår i samme trilogi som "Menneskemerket" (2005).

Novela amerického autora (nar. 1933), který patří vedle Salingera a Updika k předním představitelům mladší generace spisovatelů. Je to příběh lásky mladého knihovníka a dívky ze zámožné židovské rodiny, kteří na cestě k možnému manželství ztroskotají na nesouhlasu rodičů a zároveň i na nedostatečné pevnosti svého citu.

" Franchement, j'en ai assez des ennuis des autres... J'ai vraiment trop de mal à être à la hauteur de ce que certains exigent de moi. " Ainsi s'exprime Gabe Wallach, un charmant jeune homme, fils d'un riche dentiste new-yorkais, qui, au moyen d'efforts souvent maladroits, cherche à concilier sa vie facile et les sacrifices qu'il devrait faire pour aider son prochain. Autour de lui, des alliés volontaires ou forcés participent à cette lutte frénétique : Martha Reganhart, une divorcée au grand coeur et à l'esprit très pratique ; Paul Jerz, un jeune et mélancolique collègue de Gabe à l'Université de Chicago ; Libby Herz, sa jeune épouse envoûtante et capricieuse. Attiré par chacun des trois personnages, Gabe passe par des péripéties comiques et tragiques pour venir au secours des autres sans trop donner de sa personne. A la fin seulement il apprend à " laisser courir " et à accepter la confusion de la vie.

Jde o výsek z rodinného a osobního života dvou hlavních hrdinů, mladých učitelů na vysoké škole v Chicagu. Jejich společným znakem je zájem a pochopení hraničící až se slabostí pro ostatní lidské bytosti. První román jednoho z nejuznávanějších talentů současné americké prózy (nar.1933), zachycující osobní a rodinný život dvou mladých židovských učitelů na vysoké škole v Chicagu a demonstrující tak na jejich stycích s americkými ženami situaci nesčetných „smíšených“ manželství a „smíšených“ milostných vztahů. Příběh, ve kterém se pod humorným tónem předvádí mnoho žalu a trápení, vyplývajících z neschopnosti řešit složité a vzájemně se křížícícitové vztahy.Přestože se zde autor vyhýbá sociální tematice a zaměřuje se na konflikty osobní, přesto si nelze nepovšimnout, že pozadím jeho děje je Amerika nejsnadnějších kariér a nejpřístupnějšího blahobytu.

Er ist Anwalt, 33 und hat nur eines im Kopf: Sex. Ob Alexander Portnoy in der Öffentlichkeit onaniert, es mit einem Stück Leber treibt oder seine Freundin zu einem Dreier nötigt - stets ist er hin- und hergerissen zwischen Begierden, die mit seinem Gewissen unvereinbar sind, und einem Gewissen, das mit seinen Begierden unvereinbar ist. Beim Psychiater lässt er sein verwirrtes Leben Revue passieren. Mit „Portnoys Beschwerden“ hat Philip Roth eine brillante Satire geschrieben und zugleich den Prototyp des Sexualneurotikers erfunden. Vierzig Jahre nach der Erstveröffentlichung hat der Weltbestseller in einer Neuübersetzung nichts von seiner überschäumenden Komik eingebüßt.