Engaño

Resumen del libro

Con el amante la vida cotidiana retrocede , escribe Philip Roth, y exhibiendo su habilidad como genial observador de la pasión humana, presenta en Engaño el mundo claustrofóbico de las relaciones adúlteras con una franqueza sin parangón en la ficción norteamericana. En el centro de Engaño se encuentran dos adúlteros en su escondite. Él es un escritor americano de mediana edad, llamado Philip y que vive en Londres. Ella es una elocuente, inteligente y bien educada mujer inglesa atrapada en un matrimonio humillante al que, con sólo treinta y tantos años, ya casi se ha resignado. El ritmo de la novela está sostenido en conversaciones, principalmente las que mantiene la pareja antes y después de hacer el amor. Este diálogo " ácido, rico, lúdico, inquisitivo" es prácticamente todo lo que hay en este libro, y todo lo que es necesario que haya. Esta veloz, elegante e inquietante novela" se sitúa en la cima de la ficción contemporánea , The New York Times Book Review; Una obra increíblemente buena" Un logro impresionante... Roth ha inventado el discurso más puro, las cadencias más convincentes de la novelística norteamericana , Hudson Review.

Biografía del autor

Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) 1 is an American novelist.<br><br>He first gained attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of American-Jewish life for which he received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, 2 3 Roth's fiction, regularly set in Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "supple, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. 4 His profile rose significantly in 1969 after the publication of the controversial Portnoy's Complaint, the humorous and sexually explicit psychoanalytical monologue of "a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor," filled with "intimate, shameful detail, and coarse, abusive language." 3 5 <br><br>Roth is one of the most awarded U.S. writers of his generation: his books have twice received the National Book Award, twice the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, which featured one of his best-known characters, Nathan Zuckerman, the subject of many other of Roth's novels. The Human Stain (2000), another Zuckerman novel, was awarded the United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize and, in 2012.<br><br>