Indignation

Resumen del libro

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighbourhood butcher, seems to have gone mad mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy.

As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the Midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.

Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, tells the story of the young man's education in life's terrifying chances and bizarre obstructions. It is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual.

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