Bøger af Philip Roth

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionThe Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies.

'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction' New York Times Book ReviewHe is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; In Philip's London studio, this play of voices - sharp, tender and inquiring - reveals both their past lives with startling clarity.

A fiction-within-a-fiction, My Life as a Man centres on the fraught marriage of Peter, a gifted young writer and Maureen Tarnopol, the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead becomes his nemesis.

With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. What will it take for the pain to finally leave him alone?

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.

When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E.

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. But beneath the uneasy glamour are the spectres of the recently murdered Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr, and an unsettled Zuckerman feels himself watched...

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human experience.

The Ruppert Mundy's, once the great baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees. In this novel, the author turns his attention to one of the most beloved of all American rituals: baseball.

What qualities helped Primo Levi survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz? What does Milan Kundera make of being denounced as a subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia? What does Edna O'Brien think drove generations of Irish writers into exile? This book explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work.

Presents an acerbic response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon. In the character of Trick E Dixon, the author portrays an American president 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.

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime.

Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe.

Alting er slut for Simon Axler, hovedpersonen i Philip Roths nye roman. Han var tidligere sin generations førende skuespiller, men har nu, oppe i tresserne, mistet magien, sit talent og sin selvsikkerhed. Når han går på scenen, føler han sig som en tosse og ligner en idiot. Hans tillid til egne evner er forsvundet, han forestiller sig folk, der griner ad ham og kan ikke længere spille en anden. Noget helt grundlæggende er væk. Hans kone er der ikke længere, hans publikum har forladt ham, og hans agent kan ikke overtale ham til at gøre et comeback.                           Midt i denne fortælling om et uforklarligt og rystende tab af selv, eksploderer en modfortælling om erotisk lyst så voldsom, at den hverken fører til tryghed eller tilfredsstillelse, men mod en endnu mørkere afslutning. I denne fortælling om en lang dags rejse mod nat, fortalt med Roths bravur, nødvendighed og alvor, flås alle de måder, vi overbeviser os selv om egen soliditet, alle vores livs store præstationer – talent, kærlighed, sex, håb, overskud, renomme – fra hinanden.                       Som ENHVER og EXIT GHOST er YDMYGELSEN en nyklassisk Roth refleksion over dødelighed og afslutning.

Den jødisk-amerikanske forfatter Philip Roths (f. 1933) personlige beretning om faderen Herman Roths (1901-1989) to sidste leveår og død som følge af en hjernesvulst, herunder om det nære forhold far og søn imellem.