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...

Philip Roth: The American Trilogy 1997-2000 (Loa #220): American Pastoral / I Married a Communist / von Roth, Philip

The Facts von Roth, Philip

"Goodbye, Columbus" ist eine Novelle von Philip Roth, die erstmals 1959 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte dreht sich um die Beziehung zwischen Neil Klugman, einem jungen Mann aus Newark, New Jersey, und Brenda Patimkin, einer...

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. Their union is based on fraud and...

Zuckerman Unbound 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...

"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...

Roth's short novel (his 30th) now comes in paperback. Simon Axler, once the leading stage actor of his generation, is now in his 60s and has lost his magic, talent and confidence. With his wife and audience gone, how can he make a...

"The Plot Against America" von Philip Roth ist ein alternativer Geschichtsroman, der in den 1940er Jahren in den Vereinigten Staaten spielt. Die Geschichte wird aus der Perspektive des jungen Philip Roth erzählt und beschreibt eine...

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...

"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...