Indignazione

Philip Roth rămîne întotdeauna egal cu sine, ușor recognoscibil, ingenios, ironic, amintindu-ne întrebările mari ale vieții și obligîndu-ne să răspundem la ele. Iată un adevăr și un îndemn: Indignarea nu-i bună la nimic. În acest roman, un tînăr moare fiindcă nu găsește ceva mai bun de făcut decît s Leggi tutto

INDIGNATION,the novel, and an opinion regarding literary criticism Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book "Indignation" is one of those novels about which some critics are a bit, well, indignant. They're indignant that Roth didn't produce another masterpiece of the same degree as "American Pastoral," "The H Leggi tutto

“It’s about life, where the tiniest misstep can have tragic consequences.” Philip Roth, one of the great American novelists, died in May 2018, so I decided to read Sabbath’s Theater, his final National Book award winner, and then his uncharacteristically shorter final four novels (some say novellas) Leggi tutto

”I put my mouth to the page and kissed the ‘O.’ Kissed it and kissed it. Then, impulsively, with the tip of my tongue I began to lick the ink of the signature, patiently as a cat at his milk bowl I licked away until there no longer the ‘O,’ the ‘l,’ the ‘i,’ the ‘v,’ the second ‘i,’ the ‘a’--licked Leggi tutto

As always Roth delivers fantastic story built of just human frailty and indignation. Marc Messner is indignant about things ranging from his father's obsessive over-protection to the Winesburg College requirement for chapel attendance 40 times. His own failure to compromise (Dean Coulter for all his Leggi tutto