Indignation

Resumen del libro

Nous sommes en 1951, deuxième année de la guerre de Corée.
Marcus Messner, jeune homme de dix-neuf ans d'origine juive, poursuit ses études au Winesburg College, dans le fin fond de l'Ohio. Il a quitté le New Jersey oit habite sa famille, dans l'espoir d'échapper à la domination de son père, fou d'angoisse à l'idée que son fils bien-aimé entre dans l'âge adulte. En s'éloignant de ses parents, Marcus va tenter sa chance dans l'Amérique des années 1950.
L'inconnu s'offre à lui, avec son cortège d'embûches et de surprises. Avec ce roman d'apprentissage, Philip Roth poursuit son analyse de l'histoire de l'Amérique, celle des années cinquante, des tabous et des frustrations sexuelles, et de son impact sur la vie d'un homme jeune, isolé, vulnérable.

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>