PHILIP ROTH

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 existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating...

Volume 2 in what will be the definitive 8-volume collector's edition of Philip Roth's fiction...

A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon. In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn't have a problem w...

«Il marchio di fabbrica di Roth è da sempre la spinta agli estremi, fino al punto di rottura. La sua voce, modulata su tutta la gamma di toni dallo humour all'angoscia, come quella di Kafka, è quella di un uomo in fiamme». The Daily Beast Al centro di Nemesi c'è un animatore di campo giochi vigoroso e solerte, Bucky Cantor, lanciatore di giavell...

442pages. in8. broché jaquette. À la veille de la retraite, un professeur de lettres classiques, accusé d'avoir tenu des propos racistes envers ses étudiants, 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...