Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeHere is Philip Roth's masterpiece-an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school,...

National Bestseller. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by James Schamus.In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore...

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"The Human Stain" von Philip Roth erzählt die Geschichte von Coleman Silk, einem angesehenen Professor an einem kleinen College in Neuengland. Die Handlung spielt Ende der 1990er Jahre und wird von Nathan Zuckerman, einem Schriftsteller...

The second novel of Roth¿s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American PastoralI Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as...

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.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

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...

"Zuckerman Bound" von Philip Roth ist eine Sammlung, die vier Werke über den fiktiven Schriftsteller Nathan Zuckerman umfasst. 1. **The Ghost Writer**: Der junge und aufstrebende Autor Nathan Zuckerman besucht seinen literarischen Mentor...

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...

Ausgehend von den Praxis erklärenden Ansätzen der Wissens- und Kultursoziologie stellt sich Philip Roth die Frage, wie und in welcher Form Kreativität möglich ist. Das Ziel der Arbeit ist ein Entwurf von Praxis, in dem Kreativität nicht...

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of...

„Indignation“ von Philip Roth ist ein Roman, der in den 1950er Jahren spielt und die Geschichte von Marcus Messner erzählt, einem jungen Mann aus Newark, New Jersey. Marcus ist der Sohn eines koscheren Metzgers und wächst in einer...