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In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.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 oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, a perverse kind of heroism.

No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you’re not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college—as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution.

When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth. As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. He soon learns that the entrancing vision is Amy Bellette, but her position in the Lonoff household - student? mistress? - remains tantalisingly unclear.

Ironico e dissacrante, Alex Portnoy ripercorre sul divano dell'analista le ossessioni morbose della sua vita, in un racconto esilarante del conflitto tra desideri e coscienza. Con il suo linguaggio forte ed esplicito, il monologo è un pirotecnico inno alla libertà.

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.

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.

Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer and fall into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories - sometimes iconoclastic, sometimes elegiac - that crackle with irreverent originality and display Roth's blazing early talent.

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

Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star - and as a bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's leading lady, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies Ira as 'an American taking his orders from Moscow'.

It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three-year-old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground - child by helpless child - Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.

The fate of Roth’s everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him.

Goodbye, Columbus es la historia de Neil Klugman y la hermosa y espiritual Brenda Patimkin. Él es del Newark pobre, ella es del suburbio high class de Short Hills. Su encuentro en unas vacaciones de verano y su affaire posterior nos hablan de las clases sociales, la sospecha y el amor.

Así habla David Kepesh, reputado crítico cultural, profesor estrella de una universidad neoyorquina y también elocuente defensor de la revolución sexual. Hace décadas que se ha acostumbrado a acostarse con alumnas y a la vez mantener la distancia crítica de un esteta. Pero ahora esa distancia ha sido aniquilada.

Entre les grands idéaux humanitaires qui l'animent et les obsessions inavouables qui le hantent, Alex Portnoy, trente-trois ans, est la proie d'un insoluble conflit. Élevé dans le quartier israélite de Newark, par des parents abusifs, démesurément attachés aux principes de la tradition juive-américaine, ligoté par des tabous et des interdits, submergé de conseils et d'exhortations, il est écrasé par une culpabilité d'autant plus angoissante que la sexualité et ses déviations les plus extrêmes ne cessent de l'obnubiler.

En sus tiempos de estudiante universitario, David Kepesh dice de sí mismo que es «un bribón entre los sabios, un sabio entre los bribones». Poco se imagina él hasta qué punto ha de cumplirse en el futuro dicho lema, ni el daño que le hará. Porque Philip Roth, mientras acompaña a Kepesh desde su niñez en familia hasta adentrarse en el vasto campo de las posibilidades eróticas, partiendo de un ménage à trois en Londres para caer en las garras de la soledad en Nueva York, va creando una novela de soberana inteligencia....

Un agente de seguros jubilado, un hombre que fuera fuerte, lleno de genio y de encanto, lucha a sus ochenta y seis años contra un tumor cerebral. Este hombre es Herman, el mejor personaje creado por Philip Roth. Su padre. Patrimonio. Una historia verdadera no es solo un portentoso acto de honestidad y sensibilidad, que habla de la vulnerabilidad del amor, de la relación padre e hijo, y de la muerte y el miedo que nos produce, sino un canto a la tenacidad del superviviente, al testarudo compromiso de Herman Roth con la vida. Su patrimonio.

Entre el sonado entierro del canario del señor Russomanno y el funeral de Nixon, el profesor Murray Ringold ha vivido los noventa años de su existencia. El escritor Nathan Zuckerman se lo encuentra poco antes de morir y, gracias a unas largas charlas que se prolongan durante seis noches, Nathan conocerá la verdadera personalidad del que fue su ídolo en la adolescencia.

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.

Während Amerika sich scheinheilig über die Lewinsky-Affäre echauffiert und Bill Clinton die Amtsenthebung droht, wird in einer Kleinstadt der Universitätsprofessor Coleman Silk durch Intrigen zum Rücktritt gezwungen. Rassismus lautet der Vorwurf. Silk verliert alles – seine Arbeit, seine Frau und schließlich sein Leben. Erst nach dem Tod des Altphilologen kommt sein unglaubliches Geheimnis ans Licht.

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 other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes.