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

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Es el año en 1951 en Estados Unidos, el segundo año de la Guerra de Corea. Marcus Messner, un estudioso e intenso joven que gusta de amoldar las reglas a su propio antojo, prodecente de Newark, New Jersey, está comenzando su segundo año de estudios en el religioso y conservador campus de la Universidad de Winesburg en Ohio. ¿Por qué razón se encuentra él aquí, y no en la facultad local de Newark donde se matriculó originalmente?

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighbourhood butcher seems to have gone mad - mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in the every corner for his beloved boy. So Marcus leaves and, far from home, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Indignation is the story of a young man's education in life's terrifying chances and bizarre obstructions. It is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage and error, told with all the inventive energy and with Roth has at his command.About Author: In 1997, PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004." Recently Roth received PEN's two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. A dazzling new novel from a modern master of the form...

Philip Roth aborde une fois de plus le problème du vieillissement – du cortège d’horreurs, de maladies, de petites misères, d’humiliations qui l’accompagnent. Ce lent renoncement obligé à tout ce qui

Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, 'are melted into air, into thin air'. Following the dark meditations on mortality and endings in Everyman and Exit Ghost, and the bitterly ironic retrospect on youth and chance in Indignation, Roth has written another in his haunting group of late novels. The Humbling is Roths thirtieth book.

Primera recopilación de escritos de Joseph Roth publicada en España que cubre la trayectoria de su madurez, desde Weimar a su exilio parisino. En estos textos apreciamos la sensibilidad del novelista para captar y transmitir emociones y la inmediatez y concision del periodista. Su intuicion para la politica y su agudeza visual, propia del artista que aprecia cada detalle, convierten sus escritos periodisticos en una de las mas destacadas aportaciones literarias sobre la primera mitad del siglo XX. Su lectura nos permite hoy acompañarle, trago tras trago, mientras contempla como Europa se aleja de la razon y se sume en la desesperanza. Traductor: Eduardo Gil Bera. Prologo: Eduardo Gil Bera.

La vigésimo novena novela de Roth cuenta la historia de la educación de un joven judío, hijo único de una familia de carniceros kosher del Newark de la década de 1950. Tentado por las oportunidades que le depara el futuro y asfixiado por las estramboticas restricciones de un padre excesivamente aprensivo, decide trasladarse a una universidad luterana de Ohio, donde debera enfrentarse al antisemitismo, a la represion sexual y a la amenaza que plantea sobre los jovenes del pais la necesidad de reclutas para la guerra de Corea. Una historia intima de inexperiencia, imprudencias, resistencia intelectual, descubrimientos sexuales, coraje y terror.

Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is now in his sixties and has lost his magic, talent, and assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, are melted into air, into thin air. When his wife leaves him, and after a stint at a mental hospital, he retires to his upstate New York country house and hopes for deliverance, which arrives in the form of the lithe, vibrant, and ever-subversive Pegeen Stapleford, the daughter of old friends and 25 years his junior.In this tight, surprising narrative told with Roths inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity, we confront the terrifying fragility of all our lifes performances.

An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history, when, in 1968, his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the ingenious American berserk. "Never before has Roth written with clear conviction".--"Time".

Seymour ''Swede'' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father''s Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. 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.

Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist , an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot,six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he emerges from serving in World War II passionately committed to making this world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and un- employable, his life in ruins. On his way to his political carastrophe,he marries the nations reign-ing radio actress and beloved silent film star,the exquisitely refinedEve Frame (born Chava Fromkin). Their marriage evolves from a glam- orous, romantic idyll in a tasteful Manhattan townhouse to a dispirit-ing soap opera of tears and treachery. And, with Eves dramatic revel-ation to the gossip columnist Clifford Grant of her husbands life of espionage for the Soviet Union, the relationship enlarges from private drama into national scandal. Set in the heart of the McCarthy era, the story of Iron Rinns denun- ciation and disgrace is narrated years later by his brother, Murray Ringold, whose former student, the adolescent Nathan Zuckerman, was the radio actors adoring protege in the late forties.

This modern classic of the Jewish American experience centers around one Alexander Portnoy, who on the couch of his psychoanalyst, confesses everything from his adolescent preoccupation with masturbation to his subjugation by his dominating mother, Sophie.

''The comedy of neuroses, as Roth practices it, has much of the elegance of an 18th-century comedy of manners, but it also allows itself plenty of latitude. ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND has room for farce, when Zuckerman spends a night with an Irish film star whose steady lover is Fidel Castro;as well as for a full, accomplished treatment of a grim routine, the death of a Jewish father. But mainly it has one great comic character, tha sad and threatening Alvin Pepler, ex-Marine and ex-Tv celebrity, now alleging the theft of his private hang-ups, which are on the same lines as Portnoy''s, for use in the famous novel. In this chapter Dickens and Waugh live again'' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS.