検索キーワード： 著者 "Philip Roth" すべてのカテゴリー

À la veille de la retraite, un professeur de lettres classiques, accusé d'avoir tenu des propos racistes, préfère démissionner plutôt que de livrer le secret qui pourrait l'innocenter. Tandis que l'affaire Lewinski défraie les chroniques bien-pensantes, Nathan Zuckerman ouvre le dossier de son voisin Coleman Silk et découvre derrière la vie très rangée de l'ancien doyen un passé inouï, celui d'un homme qui s'est littéralement réinventé, et un présent non moins ravageur : sa liaison avec la sensuelle Faunia, femme de ménage de trente-quatre ans.

En el «calor sofocante de la Newark ecuatorial» una espantosa epidemia causa estragos y amenaza con dejar a los niños de la ciudad de Nueva Jersey mutilados, paralizados o minusválidos, e incluso con matarlos. Este es el sorprendente tema de la nueva y desgarradora obra de Roth: una epidemia de polio que tiene lugar en un tiempo de guerra, el verano de 1944, y sus efectos sobre la comunidad de Newark, regida por la cohesión y los valores de la familia, y sobre sus niños.

James Baldwin reading from Another Country and Giovanni's Room; WIlliam Styron reading from Lie Down in Darkness; James Jones reading from From Here to Eternity; and Philip Roth reading from Letting Go.

Man sagt, dass sich ein großer Autor daran erweist, wie er Szenen von Liebe und Tod, von Sex und vom Sterben schreiben kann. Philip Roth kann beides. Als Nathan Zuckerman in seinem Roman Ghost Writer 1979 erstmals auftrat, war er 23 Jahre alt. Nun ist Roth Alter Ego 71 und wird uns in seinem neuesten Werk Exit Ghost ein letztes Mal begegnen: Er wird uns fehlen.

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, but none can find a cause for the pain or assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain could have been caused by his own books.

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 makes three important connections that threaten his carefully protected sense of isolation.

Alles ist vorbei für Simon Axler. Der gefeierte Theaterstar hat mit sechzig alles Selbstvertrauen und alle Ausstrahlung verloren. Macbeth, Peer Gynt und Onkel Wanja - alle seine großen Rollen haben sich "in dünne Luft aufgelöst". Diesen fatalen Prozess der Selbstauflösung versucht er nun durch die Beziehung zur lesbischen Pegeen, der Tochter eines Jugendfreundes, aufzuhalten.

David Kepesh führt ein erfülltes Leben: Wechselnde Affären, Musik und Literatur bilden den Kosmos des sechzigjährigen Professors und bekannten Kulturkritikers. Bis er die 26-jährige Studentin Consuela Castillo trifft. Angesichts ihrer Jugend und Schönheit fällt seine Haltung weltgewandter Nonchalance in sich zusammen.

An eclectic compendium of the finest short fiction of the last 150 years, featuring works by Paul Theroux, Joseph Conrad, James Ellroy, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Aldous Huxley, Philip Roth, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Amerika 1951: Marcus Messner, Sohn eines Metzgers im jüdischen Viertel von Newark, scheint alles richtig zu machen...

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 originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighborhood 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 on every corner for his beloved boy.

The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm 34! Worry about oblivion when you're 75." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. A masterful portrait of one man's inner struggles, Everyman is a brilliant showcase for one of the world's most distinguished novelists.

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 that stuff in that book?"), he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisors, and sidewalk literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if "target" may be more than a figure of speech.

Während der Koreakrieg ins zweite Jahr geht, durchlebt Marcus Messner eine Geschichte, die von Unerfahrenheit handelt, von Widerstand, Sex, Mut...

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 jedoch ist ein anderer: 50 Jahre lang hütete Coleman sein großes Geheimnis selbst vor seiner Frau und nun, da es offenbar wird, steht sein ganzes Leben in einem völlig anderen Licht da.

Newark 1944. In der Stadt bricht eine schreckliche Polioepidemie aus. Die meisten Betroffenen sind Kinder...

David Kepesh, stimato critico letterario e docente universitario, da anni professa attivamente la sua fede nella liberazione sessuale con l'aiuto di uno stuolo di spigliate studentesse. A mettere in crisi il suo credo è Consuela Castillo, dignitosa e bellissima ragazza di origini cubane, che trascinerà il maturo professore nel pantano del desiderio e della gelosia, fino a un imprevedibile epilogo. Romanzo di cocente intensità, in cui si intrecciano pericolosamente i temi dell'eros e della morte.

Ex scaricatore di porto e battagliero attivista sindacale, Ira Ringold diventa agli albori della guerra fredda un astro nascente della radio. Al culmine della fama, sposa Eve, una raffinata e celebre attrice. Ma il loro idillio ha vita breve, e all'iniziale passione subentrano lacrime e tradimenti. Quando, in pieno maccartismo, Ira viene accusato di essere comunista, il dramma personale si rivela nella sua portata di feroce tragedia americana.

Quando l'eroe dell'aviazione Charles A. Lindbergh, fervido antisemita e filonazista, sconfigge alle elezioni presidenziali Franklin D. Roosevelt, la percezione di un'imminente catastrofe si diffonde a Newark. Qui vive la famiglia Roth, che scopre di non essere abbastanza americana per i gusti del nuovo presidente. Attraverso una svolta possibile della storia, il romanzo racconta i pericoli terribili della deriva autoritaria e razzista di una società.

Coleman Silk, professore di lettere classiche all'Athena College, da cinquant'anni nasconde un segreto. Un giorno però, a pochi anni dalla pensione, basta una parola detta per sbaglio e contro di lui si scatena una violenta e ipocrita caccia alle streghe. La brillante vita accademica e la bella famiglia cedono sotto il peso del perbenismo. E non c'è scampo, perché "noi lasciamo una macchia, lasciamo la nostra impronta. Impurità, crudeltà, abuso, errore, escremento, seme: non c'è altro mezzo per essere qui".