Everyman

Resumen del libro

Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, "Everyman", is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's "Everyman" is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers and during his hospitalisation as a nine-year-old surgical patient through the crises of health that come close to killing him as a vigorous adult, and into his old age, when he is undone by the death and deterioration of his contemporaries and relentlessly stalked by his own menacing physical woes. A successful commercial advertising artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him, the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage.

"Everyman" is a painful human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be. The terrain of this savagely sad short novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Philip Roth x{0026}lt;/B (1933-2018) va obtenir el Premi Pulitzer el 1997 amb x{0026}lt;I Pastoral Americanax{0026}lt;/I . El 1998 va rebre la Medalla Nacional de les Arts a la Casa Blanca i, el 2002, el màxim guardó de l'Acadèmia Americana de les Arts i les Lletres, la Medalla d'Or de Narrativa, prèviament atorgada a John Dos Passos, William Faulkner i Saul Bellow, entre altres. Ha estat guardonat dues vegades amb el National Book Award, el PEN/Faulkner Award i el National Book Critics Circle Award.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P El 2005, x{0026}lt;I La conjura contra Amèricax{0026}lt;/I va rebre el premi de la Society of American Historians, concedit a la seva destacada novel-la històrica el 2003-2004 sobre un tema històric nord-americà , i el Premi W.H. Smith pel millor llibre de l'any, fet que va fer de Roth el primer escriptor que premiat dues vegades amb aquest guardó en els quaranta-sis anys d'història del premi.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P El 2005 Roth es va convertir en el tercer escriptor nord-americà viu, l'obra del qual va publicar la Library of America en una edició completa i definitiva. El 2011 va rebre la National Humanities Medal a la Casa Blanca, i va ser nomenat posteriorment el quart guanyador del Man Booker International Prize. El 2012 va guanyar el màxim guardó d'Espanya, el Premi Príncep d'Astúries, i el 2013 el de més prestigi de França, el Comandant de la Legió d'Honor.x{0026}lt;/P