Novels 2001-2007: The Dying Animal / The Plot Against America / Exit Ghost

Resumen del libro

The definitive Philip Roth edition continues with three novels written in his late sixties and early seventies. "The Dying Animal "(2001) marks the final return of David Kepesh from "The Breast "(1972) and "The Professor""of Desire "(1977). Now an eminent cultural critic in his sixties, Kepesh expertly seduces a beautiful twenty-four-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles only to find himself torn by sexual jealousy and the anguish of loss. As "The Plot Against America "(2004) begins, aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh has defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, and fear invades every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh has publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, and now in office, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler. What follows for Jews during the Lindbergh presidency--most particularly in the Newark household of the boy Philip Roth--is the subject of an extraordinary work of historical imagination. With "Exit Ghost "(2007) Roth rings down the curtain on perhaps his greatest literary creation. Nathan Zuckerman returns to a radically changed New York, the city he left eleven years before, where a rash decision draws him into a vivid drama rife with implications for his future, and his past. Philip Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by The Library of America. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the PEN/Faulkner Award three times, the National Medal of Arts, and the Gold Medal in Fiction, the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Philip Roth x{0026}lt;/B (1933-2018) va obtenir el Premi Pulitzer el 1997 amb x{0026}lt;I Pastoral Americanax{0026}lt;/I . El 1998 va rebre la Medalla Nacional de les Arts a la Casa Blanca i, el 2002, el màxim guardó de l'Acadèmia Americana de les Arts i les Lletres, la Medalla d'Or de Narrativa, prèviament atorgada a John Dos Passos, William Faulkner i Saul Bellow, entre altres. Ha estat guardonat dues vegades amb el National Book Award, el PEN/Faulkner Award i el National Book Critics Circle Award.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P El 2005, x{0026}lt;I La conjura contra Amèricax{0026}lt;/I va rebre el premi de la Society of American Historians, concedit a la seva destacada novel-la històrica el 2003-2004 sobre un tema històric nord-americà , i el Premi W.H. Smith pel millor llibre de l'any, fet que va fer de Roth el primer escriptor que premiat dues vegades amb aquest guardó en els quaranta-sis anys d'història del premi.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P El 2005 Roth es va convertir en el tercer escriptor nord-americà viu, l'obra del qual va publicar la Library of America en una edició completa i definitiva. El 2011 va rebre la National Humanities Medal a la Casa Blanca, i va ser nomenat posteriorment el quart guanyador del Man Booker International Prize. El 2012 va guanyar el màxim guardó d'Espanya, el Premi Príncep d'Astúries, i el 2013 el de més prestigi de França, el Comandant de la Legió d'Honor.x{0026}lt;/P