ROTH PHILIP

(P/B) SABBATH'S THEATER
Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Micky Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) PATRIMONY
Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower and retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy and appreciation, Philip Roth creates his most irrepressible and irresistible hero yet - his father. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A.Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide inthe1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America.Not only had Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the 33rd president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial 'understanding' with Adolf Hitler. What then followed in America is thehistorical setting for this startling new novel by Pulitzer-prize winner ...
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(P/B) AMERICAN PASTORAL
Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, grows up in the booming post-war 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. His teenage daughter has become capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism, wrenching Swede out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American beserk. (From the publisher)...
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ΔΙΑΒΑΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΑΥΤΟ ΜΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΛΟΥΣ
Οι συνεντεύξεις, τα δοκίμια και τα άρθρα που συμπεριλαμβάνονται στο παρόν βιβλίο καλύπτουν τα πρώτα είκοσι πέντε χρόνια της συγγραφικής σταδιοδρομίας του Φίλιπ Ροθ, αποκαλύπτοντας πόσο τον απασχολεί "η σχέση ανάμεσα στον γραπτό και τον άγραφο κόσμο". Ο Ροθ μιλάει εδώ για τον εαυτό του και το έργο του, ανασκευάζοντας παρερμηνείες και απαντώντας στις επικρίσεις των ομοθρήσκων του. Παράλληλα, γράφει για μερικούς Ανατολικοευρωπαίους συγγραφείς που ανέκαθεν υπερασπιζόταν, όπως και για το μπέιζμπολ, την πολιτική, το αμερικανικό μυθιστόρημα και τ...
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ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΣΗ ΣΑΥΛΩΚ
Στην «Επιχείρηση Σάυλωκ», ο Φίλιπ Ροθ, μυθιστορηματικό alter ego του συγγραφέα, ανακαλύπτει ότι κάποιος σωσίας του σφετερίζεται το όνομά του στην Ιερουσαλήμ, για να προπαγανδίσει την αποχώρηση των Εβραίων από το Ισραήλ και την επιστροφή τους στην Ευρώπη. Η ιστορία αυτή δίνει το πρόσχημα στον συγγραφέα Φίλιπ Ρόθ να ξεκινήσει μια σατιρική περιπλάνηση στο χώρο της πολιτικής με οξυδερκείς αναλύσεις για τη Διασπορά, το κράτος του Ισραήλ, το Παλαιστινιακό πρόβλημα και την εβραϊκή ταυτότητα, ιστορία που συνοδεύεται από μια -υποτίθεται- αυτοβιογρα...
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ΦΕΥΓΕΙ ΤΟ ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΑ
Σαν ένας άλλος Ριπ Βαν Ουίνκλ, που επιστρέφοντας στη γενέτειρά του ανακαλύπτει ότι όλα έχουν αλλάξει, ο Νέιθαν Ζούκερμαν ξαναγυρίζει στη Νέα Υόρκη, την πόλη που έχει εγκαταλείψει πριν από έντεκα χρόνια. Μόνος στο σπίτι του στο βουνό, στην ορεινή Νέα Αγγλία, ο Ζούκερμαν δεν είναι παρά συγγραφέας: ούτε γυναίκες, ούτε ειδήσεις, παρά μόνο η ενασχόληση με το έργο του και η προσπάθεια να υπομείνει το άχθος των γηρατειών. Περιπλανώμενος, σαν νεκραναστημένος, στους δρόμους της πόλης, σύντομα θα πραγματοποιήσει τρεις συναντήσεις που θα διαρρήξουν ...
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ΤΑ ΓΕΓΟΝΟΤΑ
Τα γεγονότα είναι η αντισυμβατική αυτοβιογραφία ενός συγγραφέα που αναδιαμόρφωσε την ιδέα της μυθοπλασίας - ένα έργο συναρπαστικής ανυποκρισίας και επινοητικότητας, που αποκαλύπτει, με ιδιαίτερα διδακτικό τρόπο, την αλληλεπίδραση ζωής και τέχνης. Ο Φίλιπ Ροθ αφηγείται πέντε επεισόδια από τη ζωή του: τα ασφαλή παιδικά του χρόνια στην Αμερική της δεκαετίας του '30 και του '40 τη μύησή του στην αμερικανική ζωή, σε ένα συμβατικό πανεπιστήμιο της δεκαετίας του '50 τον παθιασμένο και καταστροφικό δεσμό του, όταν πια είναι ένας φιλόδοξος νέος, ...
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ΑΓΑΝΑΚΤΗΣΗ
Αμερική, 1951. Δεύτερος χρόνος του πολέμου της Κορέας. Ο Μάρκους Μέσνερ, μελετηρός, νομοταγής και παθιασμένος νεαρός από το Νιούαρκ του Νιου Τζέρζι, είναι δευτεροετής φοιτητής στο συντηρητικό, θρησκευτικών καταβολών πανεπιστήμιο του Γουάινσμπεργκ, στο Οχάιο. Γιατί δεν βρίσκεται στο τοπικό πανεπιστήμιο του Νιούαρκ όπου είχε αρχικά εγγραφεί; Αιτία είναι ο πατέρας του, ρωμαλέος χασάπης της γειτονιάς, αφοσιωμένος στη σκληρή δουλειά, που δείχνει να μην μπορεί να ελέγξει τον φόβο και την ανησυχία του για τους κινδύνους που πιστεύει ότι απειλούν ...
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(P/B) THE GHOST WRITER
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former student of Lonoff's and who may also have been his mistress. Zuckerman, with his active, youthful imagination, wonders if she could be the p...
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(P/B) THE FACTS

(P/B) THE PRAGUE ORGY
In this surreal and powerful coda to the Zuckerman trilogy, Nathan Zuckerman is visiting Prague, where intellectuals come searching for Kafta, where half the population is spying on the other half, where misfits who don't submit decently to their misfortunes act out a comedy of manners in stylish decadence. Here Zuckerman meets Olga, and striking a deal with this strangely impressive woman is to bring home lessons for the successful American writer - lessons about oppression and resilience, laughter and Kafta, Jewishness and the unforeseen...
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(P/B) THE BREAST
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis - a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) MENDELSSOHN IS ON THE ROOF
'A brilliant novel... Jir? Weil was a writer who witnessed the worst of this century and testified to his experience in works of unflinching and astonishing literary vision.' - New York Times Full of dark humour and bitter irony, Weil's novel traces the transformation of ordinary lives during the Nazi occupation of Prague. This is the story of the struggle to survive in the labyrinthine Nazi regime, and the courage required to retain hope and humanity. As Philip Roth - recent recipient of the 2011 Man Booker International Prize - writes i...
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(P/B) OPERATION SHYLOCK
What if a look-alike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In his extraordinary new book, his most ingenious and original work since The Counterlife, Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews OUT of Israel and back to Europe, a moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis to the 'real' Philip Roth. suspensful, hilarious hugely impassioned, pulsing with intelligence and narrative energy, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a polit...
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(P/B) PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT
Portnoy's Complaint n. [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. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration...
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(P/B) NEMESIS
Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, t...
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(P/B) ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky, but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if 'target' may be more than a figure of speech. In Zuckerman Unbound - the...
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(P/B) THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE
David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is acceded to it totally, to the time when he attempts to domesticate his passions (and his wife's) and finally to that most surprising moment when desire ebbs and, frighteningly, seems on the brink of disappearance. The book explores in all its...
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(P/B THE COUNTERLIFE
The Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies. Wherever they find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted by the prospect of an alternative existence. Illuminating these lives in free-fall and transformation is the acrobat mind of novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the sceptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dent...
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