Philip Roth: 81 books

Philip Roth disecciona con hilarante y despiadada inteligencia la era Nixon y sus tejemanejes. Trick E. Dixon es un cuáquero, amante de la paz y convencido del carácter sagrado de la vida humana, que no tiene el menor inconveniente en aplicar la noción de defensa propia a la matanza de mujeres...

Sabbaths theater is een van de meest gedurfde romans in het oeuvre van Philip Roth: choquerend, meedogenloos en weergaloos grappig. Mickey Sabbath, een diabolische en scandaleuze poppenspeler, vereert ontucht als principe en is op vierenzestigjarige leeftijd nog even vijandig als altijd. Hij heeft...

Philip Roth volgt de lotgevallen van zijn alleman vanaf zijn eerste, aangrijpende confrontatie met de dood tijdens een zomer in zijn jeugd op een idyllisch strand, via de familieperikelen en de hoogtepunten in zijn beroep en vitale volwassenheid, tot aan hoge leeftijd, als hij wordt verscheurd door...

"Mais um testemunho do incomparavel estilo e qualidade de Philip Roth. Como Rip Van Winkle, que regressa a sua cidade natal e encontra tudo mudado, Nathan Zuckerman volta a Nova Iorque, a cidade que abandonou ha onze anos. Sozinho na sua montanha da Nova Inglaterra, Nathan Zuckerman foi exclusivamente...

Casei com Um Comunista e a historia da ascens?o e queda de Iron Rinn, uma popular estrela da radio, que ve a sua vida pessoal e profissional destruida na era da caca as bruxas de McCarthy. Nos seus dias de gloria, casa com a famosa estrela de cinema mudo Eve Frame. O idilio romantico e breve e o seu...

A rigorously unfictionalized narrative that portrays Roth unadorned -- as young artist, as student , as son, as lover, as husband, as American, as Jew -- and candidly examines how close the novels have been to, and how far from, autobiography.

American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall—of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. Seymour "Swede" Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor...

Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral...

In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. When she was still a child, Lucy...

Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks...

Los personajes de esta novela están permanentemente tentados por la posibilidad de una existencia alternativa. La contravida habla de las personas que para hacer reales sus sueños de renovación y huida, concentran sus vidas, e incluso las arriesgan, en cambiar un destino que parece irreversible. Donde...

El mal de Portnoy**, escrita en tono subversivo y directo, es un monólogo de un joven soltero judío que se confiesa con su psicoanalista en un lenguaje «íntimo, detallado y abusivo».** Portnoy, mal de [llamado así por Alexander Portnoy (1933- )]: trastorno en el que los impulsos altruistas...

Patrimonio, uma historia verdadeira toca nas emoc?es ainda com mais profundidade do que qualquer outra obra do autor. Roth assiste a batalha que o seu pai - famoso pelo seu vigor, charme e pelo seu repertorio de recordac?es de Newark - trava com o tumor cerebral que o ira matar. O filho, repleto de amor,...

The Prague Orgy takes the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman on a quixotic journey to search for the stories of an unknown Yiddish writer. The entries from Zuckermans notebooks are rich with comedy and dense with observation, detailing his relationship with the oppressed artists of communist Prague....