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David Kepesh, stimato critico letterario e docente universitario, da anni professa attivamente la sua fede nella liberazione sessuale con l'aiuto di uno stuolo di spigliate studentesse. A mettere in crisi il suo credo è Consuela Castillo, dignitosa e bellissima ragazza di origini cubane, che trascinerà il maturo professore nel pantano del desiderio e della gelosia, fino a un imprevedibile epilogo. Romanzo di cocente intensità, in cui si intrecciano pericolosamente i temi dell'eros e della morte.

It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three-year-old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground - child by helpless child - Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.

Coleman Silk, professore di lettere classiche all'Athena College, da cinquant'anni nasconde un segreto. Un giorno però, a pochi anni dalla pensione, basta una parola detta per sbaglio e contro di lui si scatena una violenta e ipocrita caccia alle streghe. La brillante vita accademica e la bella famiglia cedono sotto il peso del perbenismo. E non c'è scampo, perché "noi lasciamo una macchia, lasciamo la nostra impronta. Impurità, crudeltà, abuso, errore, escremento, seme: non c'è altro mezzo per essere qui".

When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth. As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. He soon learns that the entrancing vision is Amy Bellette, but her position in the Lonoff household - student? mistress? - remains tantalisingly unclear.

Mickey Sabbath es un eterno adolescente casi al borde de la jubilación, un ex titiritero imaginativo, genial y libidinoso como el que más. Tras la muerte de su amante de toda la vida, decide hacer balance y se embarca en un turbulento viaje hacia el pasado. Pero cuando quiere escapar del cerco de los fantasmas de quienes más le amaron -y odiaron-, se suceden varios desastres absurdos que casi acabarán con su vida.

Le maccarthysme a beau déferler sur l'Amérique au tournant des années cinquante, Ira Ringold se croit à l'abri de la chasse aux sorcières. Non seulement parce que son appartenance au Parti communiste est ignorée même de ses amis, mais surtout parce que l'enfant des quartiers pauvres de Newark, l'ancien terrassier au lourd passé, s'est réinventé en Iron Linn, vedette de la radio, idéale réincarnation de Lincoln, et heureux époux de Eve Frame, ex-star du muet.

Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother’s recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul’s moody, intense wife. Gabe’s desire to be connected to the ordered “world of feeling” that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes’ struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs.

Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes.

Playing three roles with verve, Philip Roth gives a hilariously comic performance of two old men living in a cheap rooming house who pay a visit to a diffident graduate student to ask a convoluted and unusual favor.

Philip Roth nos introduce en una historia íntima y universal sobre la pérdida, el arrepentimiento y el estoicismo.

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. The son, full of love, anxiety and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long engagement with life. Written with fierce tenderness, Patrimony is a classic work of memoir by a master storyteller.

David Kepesh führt ein erfülltes Leben: Wechselnde Affären, Musik und Literatur bilden den Kosmos des sechzigjährigen Professors und bekannten Kulturkritikers. Bis er die 26-jährige Studentin Consuela Castillo trifft. Angesichts ihrer Jugend und Schönheit fällt seine Haltung weltgewandter Nonchalance in sich zusammen.

Während der Koreakrieg ins zweite Jahr geht, durchlebt Marcus Messner eine Geschichte, die von Unerfahrenheit handelt, von Widerstand, Sex, Mut...

Ein paar harmlose Worte - böswillig als diskriminierende Bemerkung ausgelegt - kosten Coleman Silk Stellung und Ruf. Eine junge Kollegin versucht ihn als sexistischen alten Lüstling zu entlarven, der Exmann seiner Geliebten bedroht ihn, seine Kinder wenden sich von ihm ab. Der wahre Skandal jedoch ist ein anderer: 50 Jahre lang hütete Coleman sein großes Geheimnis selbst vor seiner Frau und nun, da es offenbar wird, steht sein ganzes Leben in einem völlig anderen Licht da.

Amerika 1951: Marcus Messner, Sohn eines Metzgers im jüdischen Viertel von Newark, scheint alles richtig zu machen...

Alles ist vorbei für Simon Axler. Der gefeierte Theaterstar hat mit sechzig alles Selbstvertrauen und alle Ausstrahlung verloren. Macbeth, Peer Gynt und Onkel Wanja - alle seine großen Rollen haben sich "in dünne Luft aufgelöst". Diesen fatalen Prozess der Selbstauflösung versucht er nun durch die Beziehung zur lesbischen Pegeen, der Tochter eines Jugendfreundes, aufzuhalten.

Quando lançado, em 1969, O complexo de Portnoy se tornou best-seller e foi saudado como a consagração definitiva do talento de Philip Roth. A crítica, porém, teve certa dificuldade em classificá-lo. Seria "literatura séria" ou apenas humor? Não era a primeira vez na história do romance que um livro engraçadíssimo parecia uma obra importante; mas havia ao menos dois elementos que causavam estranheza. Em primeiro lugar, o traço caricatural na construção dos personagens lembrava o humor dos grandes comediantes judeus da época, como Lenny Bruce e Woody Allen, que se apresentavam em boates.

Während Amerika sich scheinheilig über die Lewinsky-Affäre echauffiert und Bill Clinton die Amtsenthebung droht, wird in einer Kleinstadt der Universitätsprofessor Coleman Silk durch Intrigen zum Rücktritt gezwungen. Rassismus lautet der Vorwurf. Silk verliert alles – seine Arbeit, seine Frau und schließlich sein Leben. Erst nach dem Tod des Altphilologen kommt sein unglaubliches Geheimnis ans Licht.