¿Por qué escribir?

Resumen del libro

PHILIP ROTH produjo una cantidad extraordinaria de no ficción sobre una amplia variedad de temas: su propio trabajo y el de otros escritores a los que admiraba, el proceso creativo y el estado de la cultura norteamericana. Roth describe sus ensayos como una forma de revelarse a sí mismo fuera de los disfraces, invenciones y artificios de la novela. Este trabajo se reúne en ¿Por qué escribir?, una selección elaborada por el propio autor, dividida en tres secciones. En este volumen se incluye lo indispensable de Lecturas de mí mismo, una serie de ensayos, artículos y entrevistas; el texto íntegro de El oficio, compuesto por conversaciones con otros escritores; y, por último, Aclaraciones, una colección de catorce piezas tardías.

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>