Philip Roth

Estate 1944. A Newark imperversa una spaventosa epidemia di polio che minaccia di menomazione e perfino di morte i figli della cittadina del New Jersey...

Lo sguardo di Philip Roth si posa sul padre ottantaseienne che, famoso per il suo vigore, il fascino, il repertorio di ricordi connessi a Newark, lotta...

David Kepesh, stimato critico letterario e docente universitario, da anni professa attivamente la sua fede nella liberazione sessuale...

Un tempo burattinaio scandalosamente creativo, a sessantaquattro anni Mickey Sabbath conserva il suo sprezzante antagonismo e la sua sfrenata libidine. Ma...

Ironico e dissacrante, Alex Portnoy ripercorre sul divano dell'analista le ossessioni morbose della sua vita, in un racconto esilarante del conflitto tra...

Ex scaricatore di porto e battagliero attivista sindacale, Ira Ringold diventa agli albori della guerra fredda un astro nascente della radio...

Quando l'eroe dell'aviazione Charles A. Lindbergh, fervido antisemita e filonazista, sconfigge alle elezioni presidenziali Franklin D. Roosevelt...

Coleman Silk, professore di lettere classiche all'Athena College, da cinquant'anni nasconde un segreto. Un giorno però, a pochi anni dalla...

"Lo Svedese" è un soprannome magico al liceo di Newark, New Jersey. Appartiene a Seymour Levov, il ragazzo che tutti vorrebbero essere. Alto, biondo...

Ein paar harmlose Worte - böswillig als diskriminierende Bemerkung ausgelegt - kosten Coleman Silk Stellung und Ruf. Eine junge Kollegin versucht ihn als sexistischen alten Lüstling zu entlarven, der Exmann seiner Geliebten bedroht ihn, seine Kinder wenden sich von ihm ab. Der wahre Skandal...

There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York Times best-selling author of American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner...

Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a best-selling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent 60s. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all...

In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he...

The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative...

Philip Roth, one of the best-known and award winning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition. With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered...

À la veille de la retraite, un professeur de lettres classiques, accusé d'avoir tenu des propos racistes, préfère démissionner plutôt...

Philip Roth is the most decorated American writer of his generation. In Exit Ghost, this master author crafts what may be the final chapter in the story of his beloved hero Nathan Zuckerman. After 11 years of isolation in his New England mountain refuge, Zuckerman returns to New York City and...

Entre les grands idéaux humanitaires qui l'animent et les obsessions inavouables qui le hantent, Alex Portnoy, trente-trois ans, est la proie...

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized...

At 40, 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. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another...