Philip Roth

Calificada por la cr tica norteamericana como «obra maestra , Pastoral americana es la cr nica l cida y despiadada de las ilusiones perdidas de toda una generaci n. Seymour Levov, el Sueco, atleta m tico en la escuela secundaria, afectuoso padre de familia, trabajador infatigable y acomodado heredero de la f brica de su padre, llega a la mayor a de edad en la Norteam rica pr spera y triunfante de la posguerra. Solo quiere hacer las cosas bien y llevar una vida tranquila. Pero la historia es m s fuerte que l y le arrastra sin remedio cuando su hija Merry participa en un acto violento contra la guerra de Vietnam. Las devastadoras consecuencias alejar n al Sueco de cualquier esperanza de felicidad o coherencia espiritual. En esta novela, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en 1998, Philip Roth nos sumerge en la d cada m s explosiva del siglo XX: los a os sesenta. Y lo hace en plena forma, con la prosa medida y la sutileza intelectual que le caracterizan a la hora de retratar las falsas promesas del sue o americano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century--a compulsively readable elegy for America's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and "one of Roth's most powerful novels ever" (The New York Times). A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager--a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of domestic terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.

Mozhet li odno slovo raz i navsegda razrushit reputatsiju i zhizn? Pochtennyj prepodavatel antichnoj slovesnosti Koulmen Silk podstavilsja pod udar poritsanija obschestva, stoilo emu neostorozhno vyskazatsja. Smozhet li on otmytsja ot nespravedlivogo klejma i prinjat samogo sebja? Masterski napisannyj roman Filipa Rota o kulture otmeny v Amerike.

«Roths alternativ-verden-roman er enda mer relevant i Trumps tidsalder.» The Guardian, «Århundrets beste bøker» Året er 1940, og kjendispiloten Charles Lindbergh har akkurat vunnet presidentvalget i USA med slagordet «Amerika først». I den jødiske befolkningen sprer frykten seg. Ikke bare har Lindbergh gitt jødene skylden for at USA er i krig - han har også inngått en ikke-angrepspakt med Hitler, og ser frem mot et godt samarbeid med Nazi-Tyskland. Philip Roth er sju år gammel og bor med familien sin i Newark. I Konspirasjonen mot Amerika skildrer han en barndom fanget i et bekmørkt, kontrafaktisk USA, hvor familier splittes og gamle verdier står for fall. Hvem er egentlig president Lindbergh? Og hva vil han med Amerika? «Frykt preger disse minnene, en konstant frykt. Nå er vel ingen barndom uten redsel, men jeg lurer likevel på om jeg ville vært mindre redd som barn hvis Lindbergh ikke hadde blitt president eller hvis jeg ikke hadde vært sønn av jøder.»

Iskrometnyj i shokirujusche intimnyj roman priznannogo klassika amerikanskoj literatury vtoroj poloviny XX veka i avtora "Amerikanskoj pastorali" Filipa Rota, kotoryj okunaet v vodovorot bespokojnogo razuma evrejskogo kholostjaka Aleksandra Portnogo, okhvachennogo dikim seksualnym zhelaniem.

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYPhilip Roth's bestselling alternate history--the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America-and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother. "A terrific political novel . . . Sinister, vivid, dreamlike . . . creepily plausible. . . You turn the pages, astonished and frightened." -- The New York Times Book Review

Roman i novella pod odnoj oblozhkoj, zavershenie trilogii Filipa Rota o pisatele Natane Tsukermane, alter ego avtora. "Urok anatomii" - odna iz samykh silnykh knig Rota, napisannaja s bleskom i jumorom istorija zagadochnoj bolezni znamenitogo Tsukermana. Odurmanennyj bolju, lekarstvami, alkogolem i narkotikami, on bolshe ne mozhet pisat. Ne geroi li ego sobstvennykh proizvedenij naslali na nego porchu? A mozhet, tainstvennyj nedug - prosto krizis srednego vozrasta? "Prazhskaja orgija" - jarkij finalnyj akkord literaturnogo seriala. Popav v sotsialisticheskuju Pragu, Tsukerman, etot baloven literaturnoj slavy, osoznaet, chto tvorchestvo v totalitarnom obschestve - zanjatie opasnoe, chrevatoe nepredskazuemymi posledstvijami. Etot na redkost derzkij roman ("Urok anatomii") blistatelno otrazhaet paranoidalnuju realnost, stavshuju povsemestnoj. Luchshij roman Rota, svoego roda zakljuchenie vsej ego napisannoj donyne prozy. - New York Times Book Review Pod odnoj oblozhkoj - roman i novella, zavershenie trilogii Filipa Rota o pisatele Natane Tsukermane, alter ego avtora. "Urok anatomii" - odna iz samykh silnykh knig Rota, napisannaja s bleskom i jumorom istorija zagadochnoj bolezni znamenitogo Tsukermana. Odurmanennyj bolju, lekarstvami, alkogolem i narkotikami, on bolshe ne mozhet pisat. Ne geroi li ego sobstvennykh proizvedenij naslali na nego porchu? A mozhet, tainstvennyj nedug - prosto krizis srednego vozrasta? "Prazhskaja orgija" - jarkij finalnyj akkord literaturnogo seriala. Popav v sotsialisticheskuju Pragu, Tsukerman...

The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America – a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday Telegraph