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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. Für "Der menschliche Makel" erhielt Philip Roth 2001 den PEN/Faulkner-Preis für Literatur.

Das amerikanische Idyll, das ist Newark in New Jersey. Dort lebt Seymore Levov mit seiner Frau Dawn und seiner Tochter Merry. Er leitet eine Handschuhfabrik, die seine vor drei Generationen eingewanderten jüdischen Vorfahren aufgebaut haben. Doch dieser amerikanischen Traum vom erfolgreichen, glücklichen Leben wird jäh zum Alptraum einer chaotischen feindlichen Wirklichkeit, als seine verwöhnte Tochter in den Jahren des Vietnamkrieges in den Untergrund gerät.

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.

Philip Roth, one of the best-known and award winning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition. With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered existence and into an obsessive affair with one of his students.

Philip Roth presents a vivid portrait of an innocent man being swept away by a current of conflict and violence in his own backyard - a story that is as much about loving America as it is hating it. Seymour "Swede" Levov, a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, and the prosperous heir of his father's Newark glove factory comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. Not even a most private, well-intentioned citizen, it seems, gets to sidestep the sweep of history. American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall ... a strong, confident man, a master of social equilibrium, overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. For the Swede is not allowed to stay forever blissful living out life in rural Old Rimrock in his 170 year-old stone farmhouse with his pretty wife (his college sweetheart and Miss New Jersey of 1949) and his lively albeit precocious daughter, the apple of his eye ... that is until she grows up to become a revolutionary terrorist.

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...

Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Mickey Sabbath at 64 is an aging, raging powerhouse, defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his longtime mistress, Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past.

Newark 1944. In der Stadt bricht eine schreckliche Polioepidemie aus. Die meisten Betroffenen sind Kinder...

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 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.

Iron Rinn, born Ira Ringold, is a Newark roughneck, a radio actor, an idealistic Communist, and an educated ditchdigger turned popular performer. A six-foot, six-inch Abe Lincoln lookalike, he emerges from serving in World War II passionately committed to making the world a better place and instead winds up blacklisted, unemployable, and ruined by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight.

At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen’s death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it.

Man sagt, dass sich ein großer Autor daran erweist, wie er Szenen von Liebe und Tod, von Sex und vom Sterben schreiben kann. Philip Roth kann beides. Als Nathan Zuckerman in seinem Roman Ghost Writer 1979 erstmals auftrat, war er 23 Jahre alt. Nun ist Roth Alter Ego 71 und wird uns in seinem neuesten Werk Exit Ghost ein letztes Mal begegnen: Er wird uns fehlen.

Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills - meet one summer and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella, the first book published by Philip Roth, explores issues of both class and Jewish assimilation into American culture. It won the National Book Award in 1960.

In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism.

At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her 30s, she is already nervously half-resigned. The book's action consists of conversation - mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love.

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.

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 a trios 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.

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

Letting Go is Philip Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was 29. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York and Iowa City, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints, and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today.