Fecha de nacimiento: 19. Marzo 1933
Otros nombres:فیلیپ راث
Philip Milton Roth es un escritor estadounidense de origen judío, conocido sobre todo por sus novelas, aunque también ha escrito cuentos y ensayos. Entre sus obras más conocidas se encuentran: la colección de cuentos de 1959 Goodbye, Columbus, la novela Portnoy's Complaint , y su «trilogía americana», publicada en los años 1990, compuesta por las novelas Pastoral americana , ganadora del Pulitzer, Me casé con un comunista , y La mancha humana .
Muchas de sus obras reflejan los problemas de asimilación e identidad de los judíos de Estados Unidos, lo cual lo vincula con otros autores estadounidenses como Saul Bellow, Premio Nobel en 1976, o Bernard Malamud, que también tratan en sus obras la experiencias de los judíos estadounidenses.
Gran parte de la obra de Roth explora la naturaleza del deseo sexual y la autocomprensión. Su ficción se caracteriza por el monólogo íntimo, pronunciado con un sentido de humor rebelde y la energía histérica a veces asociada con el héroe y el narrador de Portnoy's Complaint , la novela que le trajo la fama.
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The Dying Animal
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The Human Stain
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The Human Stain
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Pastoral Americana
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Context: There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.
— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
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Context: You ask if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book — if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that's otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn't fiction.
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Context: No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in today. No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously described American democracy as “the worship of jackals by jackasses”) could have imagined that the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the U. S. A., the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously ridiculous commedia dell’arte figure of the boastful buffoon. How naïve I was in 1960 to think that I was an American living in preposterous times! How quaint! But then what could I know in 1960 of 1963 or 1968 or 1974 or 2001 or 2016? … However prescient The Plot Against America might seem to you, there is surely one enormous difference between the political circumstances I invent there for the U. S. in 1940 and the political calamity that dismays us so today. It’s the difference in stature between a President Lindbergh and a President Trump. Charles Lindbergh, in life as in my novel, may have been a genuine racist and an anti-Semite and a white supremacist sympathetic to Fascism, but he was also — because of the extraordinary feat of his solo trans-Atlantic flight at the age of 25 — an authentic American hero 13 years before I have him winning the presidency. … Trump, by comparison, is a massive fraud, the evil sum of his deficiencies, devoid of everything but the hollow ideology of a megalomaniac.
Comparing Charles Lindbergh's leadership of an "America First" movement with that of Donald Trump, in responses to being asked about foreseeing an America such as now exists in his earlier writings, including his alternate-history novel The Plot Against America (2004) where Lindbergh defeated FDR for the presidency in 1940, as quoted in "No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say" by Charles Mcgrath, in The New York Times (16 January 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/books/review/philip-roth-interview.html
