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Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes' struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously, Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable woman who, according to critic James Atlas, is masterfully portrayed with "depth and resonance."

The complex liason between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this tragically comic work.

El protagonista de esta intensa crónica sobre el paso del tiempo es alguien que descubre la terrible realidad de la muerte en las playas de su infancia, que triunfa en su carrera como publicitario, que fracasa estrepitosamente en sus tres matrimonios y que, en su vejez, reflexiona sobre el deterioro físico, el arrepentimiento y la necesidad de aceptar la inanidad de su porpia existencia.

A young novelist's obsession with proving his manhood is transferred to his fiction and echoed in his tempestuous marriage.

El sueño americano se convierte en pesadilla.

En plena caza de brujas, durante la era McCarthy, Iron Rinn -cavador de zanjas primero, actor radiofónico más tarde- ve cómo tras participar en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, comprometido en la lucha por un mundo mejor, termina en la lista negra, desempleado y perseguido por el fanatismo ideológico.

En este camino tendrá un papel fundamental la exquisita actriz Eve Frame. El matrimonio de ambos se transformará: de idilio fascinante y perfecto pasará a ser un tremendo y cruel culebrón. Y cuando ella revele a la prensa las relaciones de Iron con la URSS, el apogeo de la traición y la venganza se materializarán en el escándalo nacional y la ruina personal. El hermano de Iron, Murray, será quien cuente esta historia años más tarde.

Philip Roth, el autor de Pastoral americana y La mancha humana, vuelve a explorar y a retratar con ironía, sinceridad y vehemencia los conflictos de la sociedad norteamericana del siglo XX.

Philip Roth od lat diagnozuje Amerykę, wykazując kruchość jej rzekomo fundamentalnej tolerancyjności i demokracji. W swojej wielkiej amerykańskiej trylogii – „Amerykańska sielanka”, „Poślubiłam komunistę”, „Ludzka skaza” – odmalowuje wielokulturowego molocha społecznego, podatnego na autodestruktywne fobie i mody ideologiczne: lewacki anarchizm, prawicowy despotyzm, rasizm.

„Spisek przeciwko Ameryce” wpisuje się właśnie w ten najlepszy nurt pisarstwa wielokrotnego kandydata do literackiego Nobla, godnego następcy wielkich mistrzów prozy zza oceanu. W tej powieści Roth poddaje Amerykę eksperymentowi historii alternatywnej: co by było gdyby w roku 1940, u szczytu szalejącej za Altantykiem gorączki II wojny światowej, Stany Zjednoczone zaraziły się faszyzmem, wybierając na prezydenta nie F.D. Roosevelta, lecz Charlesa Lindbergha – legendarnego awiatora, sympatyzującego (o czym świadczą dołączone do książki dokumenty) z ideologią nazistowską? Z dnia na dzień, na oczach żydowskiego dziecka – narratorem jest tu bowiem mały Philip – bezpieczny świat dobrobytu i miłości bliźniego zmienia się w poligon uprzedzeń, nienawiści i szykan, których główną ofiarą padają Żydzi. „Kwestia żydowska” znajduje znane z historii rozwiązania: izolacja, ostracyzm, obozy koncentracyjne.

Cóż, że historia dopisała do tej fantazji happy end? Eksperyment Rotha powiódł się znakomicie.

Wyobraźmy sobie sytuację, gdy do złudzenia podobny do nas nieznajomy zawłaszcza nasze imię i nazwisko, przypisuje sobie nasz życiorys i jeździ po świecie, podszywając się pod nas.

W książce tej, gdzie w mistrzowski sposób fakty splatają się z fikcją, Philip Roth spotyka mężczyznę, który być może jest, a może nie jest Philipem Rothem. A wszystko dlatego, że ktoś o tym nazwisku przemierza państwo Izrael, propagując dziwaczną ideę żydowskiego exodusu a rebours. Roth postanawia powstrzymać tego człowieka – nawet gdyby miało to oznaczać wcielenie się w uzurpatora.

Pełna napięcia, zabawna, nasycona emocjami, inteligentnie napisana i tętniąca narracyjną energią Operacja Shylock jest historią szpiegowską, politycznym thrillerem, refleksją nad istotą tożsamości, a jednocześnie rodzajem wyznania.

“Touching as well as hilariously lewd . . . Roth is vibrantly talented . . . as marvelous a mimic and fantasist as has been produced by the most verbal group in human history.” Alfred Kazin, New York Review of Books

“Deliciously funny . . . absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious . . . a brilliantly vivid reading experience.” The New York Times Book Review

“Roth is the bravest writer in the United States. He’s morally brave, he's politically brave. And Portnoy is part of that bravery.” Cynthia Ozick, Newsday

“Simply one of the two or three funniest works in American fiction.” Chicago Sun-Times

Portnoy’s Complaint, a long monologue narrated by a young Jewish man while in analysis, is prefaced by a definition of “Portnoy’s Complaint” as a disorder in which “strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature.” The book focuses on Portnoy’s parents, his endless adolescent experimentation with masturbation, his youthful sexual encounters with girls, his varied sexual experiences with a model named Monkey, and his pilgrimage to Israel—all of which are punctuated by frequently obscene outcries against the guilt he feels for his sexual obsessions. Roth, who has defended himself and the book many times, claims it is full of dirty words because Portnoy wants to be free: “I wanted to raise obscenity to the level of a subject.”

The book became a cause célèbre in 1969, commented on by social critics and stand-up comedians alike. Most objections to it came from Jewish groups and rabbis who called it “anti-Semitic” and “self-hating” and protested against libraries that put it on their shelves. It was seized in Australia in 1970 and 1971 by Melbourne officials, who filed obscenity charges against it and the bookseller who sold it.

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism.

The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from protagonist Nathan Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, completes the trilogy and epilogue . It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.

This Vintage edition is the first paperback publication of the epilogue.

A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth’s brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.

In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn’t have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public.

"I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five." Philip Roth's new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality. Roth's everyman is a hero whose youthful sense of independence and confidence begins to be challenged when illness commences its attack in middle age. A successful commercial advertising artist, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him. He is the brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy. He is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he has made a mess of marriage. Inevitably, he discovers that he has become what he does not want to be.

Roth has been hailed as "the most compelling of living writers… [His] every book is like a dispatch from the deepest recesses of the national mind." In Everyman, Roth once again displays his hallmark incisiveness. From his first glimpse of death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through his vigorous, seemingly invincible prime, Roth's hero is a man bewildered not only by his own decline but by the unimaginable deaths of his contemporaries and those he has loved. The terrain of this haunting novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the 33rd president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial 'understanding' with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and whose virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. What then followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new novel by Pulitzer-prize winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family – and for a million such families all over the country – during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst.

In this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator.

With excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical speculation, and a cast of characters that includes Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.

"Touching as well as hilariously lewd…Roth is vibrantly talented…as marvelous a mimic and fantasist as has been produced by the most verbal group in human history." Alfred Kazin, New York Review of Books

"Deliciously funny…absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious…a brilliantly vivid reading experience." The New York Times Book Review

"Roth is the bravest writer in the United States. He's morally brave, he's politically brave. And Portnoy is part of that bravery." Cynthia Ozick, Newsday

"Simply one of the two or three funniest works in American fiction." Chicago Sun-Times

Portnoy’s Complaint, a long monologue narrated by a young Jewish man while in analysis, is prefaced by a definition of “Portnoy’s Complaint” as a disorder in which “strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature.” The book focuses on Portnoy’s parents, his endless adolescent experimentation with masturbation, his youthful sexual encounters with girls, his varied sexual experiences with a model named Monkey, and his pilgrimage to Israel -all of which are punctuated by frequently obscene outcries against the guilt he feels for his sexual obsessions. Roth, who has defended himself and the book many times, claims it is full of dirty words because Portnoy wants to be free: “I wanted to raise obscenity to the level of a subject.”

The book became a cause célèbre in 1969, commented on by social critics and stand-up comedians alike. Most objections to it came from Jewish groups and rabbis who called it “anti-Semitic” and “self-hating” and protested against libraries that put it on their shelves. It was seized in Australia in 1970 and 1971 by Melbourne officials, who filed obscenity charges against it and the bookseller who sold it.

Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences.

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad — mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy.

As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father’s fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.