Novels & other narratives 1986-1991

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For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth “our foremost novelist since Faulkner.” Roth’s comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arrangement with the author, The Library of America continues the definitive edition of Roth’s collected works. This fifth volume of The Library of America’s definitive edition of Philip Roth’s collected works presents four books that exemplify the description of Roth, proposed by British novelist Anthony Burgess, as a writer “who never steps twice into the same river.” The Counterlife (1986) is a novel told from conflicting perspectives about people enacting drastic dreams of renewal and escape. The Facts (1988)—the first of the “Roth Books”—is a novelist’s autobiography in which the author presents his own battles defictionalized and unadorned. In the second Roth book, Deception (1990), a married American named Philip, living in London, and the married Englishwoman who is his mistress meet sporadically in a secret trysting place where the woman eloquently reveals herself to her lover as they talk before and after making love. In the third Roth book, Patrimony (1991), the author watches as his 86-year-old father, Herman Roth, battles a fatal brain tumor. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

Philip Roth, 1933-2018

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

767 s. : 1 portrét ; 21 cm

Vydáno

New York, N.Y. : Library of America, c2008

Edice

Library of America

Témata

Roth, Philip, > 1933-2018

20.-21. století

američtí spisovatelé > 20.-21. století > 20.-21. století

americké prózy

autobiografické prózy

Popis jednotky

Chronologický přehled

Bibliografie

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ISBN

978-1-59853-030-8 (váz.)