Bøger af Philip Roth

Det kunne være sket, og hvad var der sket, hvis flyverhelten og antisemitten Charles Lindbergh havde vundet det amerikanske præsidentvalg i 1940? Hvad ville det f.eks. have betydet for forfatterens egen jødiske familie? Hvad ville det have betydet for USA? For verdens gang? En rystende beretning om en familie, hvis rettigheder langsomt, men sikkert bliver indskrænket.

Året er 1951. Vi er i Amerika, og Koreakrigen er gået ind i sit andet år. Marcus Messner, den unge lovlydige dreng fra Newark, New Jersey, skal begynde som andenårsstuderende på det traditionsrige og konservative Winesburg College i Ohio. Men hvorfor i Ohio og ikke på det lokale college i Newark, hvor han oprindelig startede? Fordi hans far, den djærve, hårdtarbejdende, lokale slagter er blevet vanvittig – vanvittig af frygt for alle de farer, verden og voksenlivet har at byde hans søn.   Som den desperate og forpinte mor fortæller sin søn, bunder farens frygt i kærlighed og stolthed. Måske, men den gør Marcus så vred, at han ikke længere kan blive boende hjemme. Han rejser, og fjernt fra Newark skal han nu lære at navigere i forhold til midtvestens omgangsformer og udfordringer – et helt andet Amerika.   INDIGNATION, Philip Roths 27. bog, fortæller historien om en ung mands møde med livets frygtindgydende muligheder og bizarre forhindringer. Det er en historie om umodenhed, idioti, intellektuelt oprør, de første seksuelle erfaringer, mod og fejltagelser – fortalt med al den energi og skarphed, der kendetegner forfatterskabet.

JEG GIFTEDE MIG MED EN KOMMUNIST er historien om Ira Ringolds storhed og fald. Han begynder som grøftegraver i 1930’ernes Newark, New Jersey, bliver en stor radiostjerne i 1940’erne og ender med at blive ødelagt både professionelt og menneskeligt af 1950’ernes heksejagt anført af McCarthy.   I sin storhedstid som radiostjerne – og som en dedikeret, hårdtslående politisk ”progressiv” – gifter Ira sig med Hollywoods elskede stumfilmstjerne, Eve Frame. Deres glamourøse hvedebrødsdage på Manhattan er dog kortvarige, og med udgivelsen af sine skandaløse erindringer udpeger Eve sin mand som ”en amerikaner styret fra Moskva”.   JEG GIFTEDE MIG MED EN KOMMUNIST er en fortælling om personlig ondskab, forræderi og hævn og et storslået portræt af efterkrigstidens Amerika, hvor den anti-kommunistiske feber ikke kun rasede i det politiske liv men også raserede venners, familiers, ægtefællers, forældres og børns liv.

In his heyday as a star - and as a zealous, bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's beloved leading lady, Eve Frame. This book charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigger in 1930s New Jersey, becoming a big-time radio hotshot in the 1940s.

'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope. Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede's bountiful American luck deserts him.

It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town a distinguished classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser.

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, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father''s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede''s beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede''s adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.

Tells the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer and fall into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. This novella is accompanied by five short stories - sometimes iconoclastic, sometimes elegiac.

I det ækvatoriale Newarks lammende varme raser en skrækindjagende epidemi. Den truer New Jerseys børn med lemlæstelse, lammelse, livslang invaliditet – sågar død. Dette er det foruroligende og overraskende emne for Roths nye knugende roman: en krigstids polioepidemi i sommeren 1944 og de konsekvenser, den har for livet i et familieorienteret kvarter i Newark.  I centrum for NEMESIS står den energiske, pligtopfyldende 23-årige legepladsleder, Bucky Cantor, der ihærdigt tager sig af de lokale børn og ligeså ihærdigt frustreres over sit dårlige syn, der har forhindret ham i at kæmpe side om side med sine jævnaldrende. Ved at stille skarpt på de dilemmaer Cantor kæmper med, da Polioepidemien rammer hans legeplads, trækker Roth med suveræn sikkerhed sine læsere igennem hele spektret af følelser en sådan pest producerer: frygt, panik, vrede, forvirring, lidelse og smerte.

'In The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself... America has not read enough of Philip Roth' Bernard-Henri Levy When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A.

Now a major motion picture starring Sarah Gadon, Logan Lerman and Ben Rosenfield, and adapted for the screen by James SchamusDuring the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious, law-abiding Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College.

Tells an universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. In this novel, the fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age when he is stalked with physical woes.

[after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)]:A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Portnoy's Complaint tells the tale of young Jewish lawyer Alexander Portnoy and his scandalous sexual confessions to his psychiatrist.

Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son. Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that will kill him.

""Masonry in the Formation of Our Government 1761-1799"" is a historical book written by Philip A. Roth. The book explores the role of Freemasonry in the formation of the United States government during the years 1761 to 1799. It provides a detailed account of the influence of Freemasonry on the Founding Fathers and their political ideas, as well as the role of Masonic lodges in the American Revolution and the early years of the Republic. The book also delves into the controversies surrounding Freemasonry during this time, including accusations of secret societies and anti-Masonic sentiment. Overall, ""Masonry in the Formation of Our Government"" offers a unique perspective on the early years of American history and the role of Freemasonry in shaping the nation's political landscape.Contents: Causes that led to the Revolution; Beginning of Hostilities; Stirring Events; Fortitude of Washington; The Struggles; End of the Conflict; Drafting of the Constitution; Inauguration of Washington; Washington's Administration; Presidents Who Were Master Masons; History of a Few Military Lodges; Declaration of Independence and Its Signers; Constitution of the US.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed American Trilogy, a major milestone in contemporary American literature. In American Pastoral (1997), Swede Levov is wrenched from the tranquility of his domestic life and into the turbulent 1960s by his cherished daughter, an antiwar terrorist. I Married a Communist (1998), a story of betrayal set in America's anti-Communist 1940s, recounts the rise and fall of radio star Ira Ringold, exposed by his wife as "an American taking his orders from Moscow." The Human Stain (2000) is set in 1998, when America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president; in a small New England college town an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would astonish his most virulent accuser. Philip Roth is the only living novelist whose works are being collected in the Library of America series. The nine-volume edition will be completed in 2013, for Roth's 80th birthday.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

National Bestseller. Now 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 year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad- mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. Far from Newark, Marcus has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in Roth's recent books and a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history.

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 childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire.