The Professor of Desire - Couverture souple

Roth, Philip

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099389010 ISBN 13 : 9780099389019

Editeur : Vintage, 1995

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

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 again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.

In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus – a collection of stories, and a novella – for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America’s finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

Roth’s lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.

Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously.

Revue de presse :

"Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism" (Milan Kundera)

"A thoughtful, even gentle, stylistically elegant novel about the paradox of male desire, that lacerating passion which may lead to happiness but cannot survive it" (New York Times Book Review)

"He writes so well. His prose is both elegant and furious. It can be witty, tender and brutal in a single paragraph" (Melvyn Bragg)

"No one writing can juggle the somber and the ludicrous more adroitly than Roth" (The Time)

"A profound and commanding book... There is great beauty in it, humanity and tenderness" (Sunday Telegraph)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0099389010
• ISBN 13: 9780099389019
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272