Lecturas de mí mismo

Resumen del libro

Recopilación de artículos de Philip Roth.
«Un mapa certero y detallado de la poética de Roth, de sus ideas literarias y de los procesos y circunstancias de la composición de sus obras más significativas..JAVIER APARICIO MAYDEU, Babelia, El País..Las entrevistas, ensayos y artículos reunidos en este volumen cubren un cuarto de siglo de la distinguida carrera del autor norteamericano. Roth habla de sí mismo, de su obra y de las controversias que ha engendrado. Estas páginas también contienen sus escritos sobre los autores de Europa oriental por los que siempre ha abogado, sobre béisbol, la narrativa norteamericana y los judíos estadounidenses...Philip Roth es uno de los escritores estadounidenses más leídos e influyentes de los últimos cincuenta años. La calidad de su obra está avalada por premios como el National Book Award o el Pulitzer, y cada nueva obra suya despierta expectación en todo el mundo...Traducción de Jordi Fibla

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>