La humillación

Resumen del libro

La nueva novela de Philip Roth: otro acontecimiento editorial de primer orden.
Para Simon Axler, uno de los principales actores teatrales norteamericanos, todo ha terminado. Ya sexagenario, ha perdido su magia, su talento y la seguridad en sí mismo. Imagina que la gente se ríe de él, no puede fingir que es otra persona. Su mujer se ha ido, su público le ha abandonado, su agente no puede persuadirle de que vuelva a actuar.
De repente, estalla otra trama: un deseo erótico fuera de lo corriente que sirve de consuelo a su vida desposeída, pero que es tan arriesgado y aberrante que no apunta hacia el alivio y la gratificación, sino a un final aún más sombrío y espantoso.
Reseña:
Obliga a los lectores a adentrarse en regiones sumamente oscuras de la experiencia humana.
El País

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>