La mancha humana

Resumen del libro

El sueño americano se tambalea peligrosamente.

Una novela que nos lleva a las profundidades de la pirotecnia social norteamericana a través de la escritura veloz y magistral de Philip Roth.
En el verano de 1998, el doble azote del puritanismo y la corrección política recorre Estados Unidos a causa del escándalo Lewinski.
Coleman Silk, un viejo catedrático de una pequeña universidad de Nueva Inglaterra, se ve obligado a jubilarse cuando sus colegas lo acusan de racista. Lo asombroso del dictamen es que la verdad sobre Silk podría acallar hasta al más virulento de sus detractores. Su secreto, escondido durante cincuenta años a esposa, familiares y amigos, servirá al escritor Nathan Zuckerman para reconstruir la biografía desconocida de Silk y entender cómo puede llegar a desenmarañarse una ficción de vida tan ingeniosamente armada.
La crítica ha dicho...
Probablemente la mejor obra de su carrera. Una tragedia moderna.
Chicago Sun-Times
En la literatura americana actual, está Philip Roth y, luego, todos los demás.
Chicago Tribune
Es una maravillosa historia donde coexisten el coraje y la decadencia, la mentira y el pundonor, la necesidad y el fracaso.
José María Guelbenzu, Babelia
Roth está aquí en el apogeo de sus habilidades creativas.
Publishers Weekly
La mancha humana es un libro fascinante y a menudo hermoso.
Lorrie Moore, The New York Times Book Review
Una maravilla de empatía creativa, generosidad y tacto.
Kirkus Reviews
La mancha humana participa de las mejores virtudes de la narrativa norteamericana.
Darío Villanueva, El Cultural

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>