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lunedì 18 febbraio 2019

To be Philip Roth




















New jork - the award - winning novelist and the intrepid storyteller of sex, death, assimilation and destiny, from the comical craziness of the "Portnoy Complaint" to the elegicuous lyrics of "American shepherd ", died on Tuesday evening at 85. In recent years, Roth has become increasingly concerned about history and its puncture, as ordinary people have been overwhelmed by events beyond their control, such as Jews in "The story Against America" or "The student in outrage" who dies during The Korean War. The story told by Nathan Zuckerman tells the story of the vietnamese era and tells the story of the rise and fall of the slipped Irving Levov, known as "the Swede" for its good Aryan appearance. Although it is Jewish, Levov is not as alienated as many other Roth Jewish characters, but in reality it becomes a dominant athlete and later a successful husband and father - someone who lives the dream of the 1950s, fully immigrating to American life. Once again told by Zuckerman, along with his 90 - year - old high school teacher Murray, the novel follows the story of the radio star, the radio star known as Iron Rinn, who turned into communism during the second World War and then vili. Nathan Zuckerman, an alter ego of roth, first focuses on the fact that he decides that a young woman he meets in the house of a renowned Jewish writer, EI Lonoff, is Anne Frank. Roth looks at the political turmoil of the Vietnam war years, and Zuckerman re - imagines Swede's life, a young promising man who thought he had made the American dream come true - until his life began to unravel around him. The fascist acquisition, rooted in the children of Newark Roth, seemed completely plausible after 11 september and is increasingly urgent in the Donald Trump era. And Mickey, the main character of the Sabbath theatre, one of Roth's great novels at the end of his career, is in many ways old - fashioned Portnoy, but still in the hands of lust and desire, he is angry with the indignation of old times, but saved from suicidal impulses. Roth's autobiographical phase began in 1974 with My Life as a Man, which he said was probably The least changed in fact from his books, and continued with The Zuckerman trilogy - The Writer of The spirit ( 1979 ) and The Lesson of Anatomy ( 1983 ). Like Portnoy's Complaint, The Sabbath theatre seemed to release its author, but The ensuing work - which Roth called his American trilogy : American pastor, I Married a Communist and a Human Stain - is less about sex than about history or traumatic moments in American culture. Zuckerman, like Roth, a Jewish writer who was attacked by Jewish critics at the beginning of his career, was one of the many characters that Roth had repeated in his fiction. Philip Milton Roth was born to the first generation of Americans in 1933 - Herman Roth, a Life insurance salesman, and his wife, the former Bess Finkel. U. s. President Barack Obama will present the National Medal of Humanities to the writer Philip Roth at a ceremony at the White House in Washington in 2011. If few American writers compare with Roth's direct analysis of the desires and decline of the male body, it's because Roth wrote about so many of his own physical challenges with almost unbearable clarity. Where John Updike, his competitor in a literary marathon of the mid - 1970s - in which each of them had the other, step by step, step by step, breaking books such as sweat - regularly published eight poems in the format, essays, jeux d 'esprit' esprit 'esprit' esprit's regularly published. In the meantime, adultery is the most American of the acts, being a form of search for happiness that is accessible to other limited actors : in Roth, the removal of the Jewish tribe is the cost of cosmopolitan education promoted by the jews. Philip Roth, whose life is an open book that spans three decades of autobiographical fiction and fact, ironically does not like to give public lectures and is a reluctant topic of interrogation. Roth and Kennedy belong to more than 170 Writers in 50 cities to participate in the first National Reading on Tuesday : Writers Harvest for the Homeless, the son of fryderyk Busch, a novelist and college professor. Roth considers Newark to be an American success story in the 1930s and 1940s. While predecessors such as Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud wrote about the painful adaptation of Jews from the lives of immigrants, Roth's heroes were the next generation. According to Alexander Portnoy's story, Roth's novel satirized the boring expectations of "nice Jewish boys" and immortalized the most heartbreaking manifestations of sexual obsession.

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