Everyman [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0099501465 ISBN 13: 9780099501466

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2025

Riassunto

Vincitore del PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Everyman è una storia sinceramente intima ma universale di perdita, rimpianto e stoicismo. Il romanzo prende il titolo da un classico del primo dramma inglese, il cui tema è l'evocazione dei vivi alla morte. Il destino dell'uomo qualunque di Roth è tracciato dal suo primo sconvolgente confronto con la morte sulle spiagge idilliache delle sue estati infantili, attraverso le prove familiari e i successi professionali della sua vigorosa età adulta, fino alla sua vecchiaia quando è perseguitato da sofferenze fisiche. Il terreno di questo potente romanzo è il corpo umano. Il suo argomento è l'esperienza comune che ci terrorizza tutti.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.

In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus – a collection of stories, and a novella – for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America’s finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

Roth’s lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.

Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously.

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The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age when he is stalked with physical woes.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0099501465
• ISBN 13: 9780099501466
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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