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Philip Roth

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Après trente-six ans, Zuckerman l'écrivain retrouve Seymour Levov dit «le Suédois», l'athlète fétiche de son lycée de Newark. Toujours aussi splendide, Levov l'invincible, le généreux, l'idole des années de guerre, le petit-fils d'immigrés juifs devenu un Américain plus vrai que nature.Le Suédois a réussi sa vie, …

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Ce récit, écrit à la première personne, raconte la lente maladie du père de l'auteur âgé de quatre-vingt-six ans, sa lutte obstinée pour vaincre la tumeur au cerveau qui finira par l'emporter. Dans ce combat contre le drame de la vieillesse, le fils guide et assiste le père jusqu'à s'identifier à lui.Patrimoine est …

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Portnoy et son complexe est le troisième roman de Philip Roth paru en 1969, qui a apporté la notoriété internationale à son auteur.

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The Professor of Desire is a 1977 novel by Philip Roth. It describes the youth, the college years and the academic career of professor David Kepesh, and beside that, his sexual desires. The book was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life and provincial American piety - intent on reforming the men around her: especially her incompetent mama's boy of a husband, Roy. As time …

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Reading Myself and Others is an anthology of essays, interviews and criticism by the author Philip Roth. The first half of the book is built mainly upon Roth's assessment of his own published works at the time of the anthology's publication. The second half of the volume consists of essays and introductions by Roth …