Laisser courir

Resumen del libro

"Franchement, j'en ai assez des ennuis des autres... J'ai vraiment trop de mal à être à la hauteur de ce que certains exigent de moi". Ainsi s'exprime Gabe Wallach, un charmant jeune homme, fils d'un riche dentiste new-yorkais, qui, au moyen d'efforts souvent maladroits, cherche à concilier sa vie facile et les sacrifices qu'il devrait faire pour aider son prochain. Autour de lui des alliés volontaires ou forcés participent à cette lutte frénétique : Martha Reganhart, une divorcée au grand coeur et à l'esprit très pratique ; Paul Jerz, un jeune et mélancolique collègue de Gabe à l'Université de Chicago ; Libby Herz, sa jeune épouse envoûtante et capricieuse.
Attiré par chacun des trois personnages, Gabe passe par des péripéties comiques et tragiques pour venir au secours des autres sans trop donner de sa personne. A la fin seulement il apprend à "laisser courir" et à accepter la confusion de la vie.

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>