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Carregando... La controvita (original: 1986; edição: 2010)de Philip Roth
Informações da ObraThe Counterlife de Philip Roth (1986)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. La contravida nos habla de seres humanos que llevan a la práctica sus sueños de huida y renovación, llegando algunos a arriesgar la vida por cambiar su destino, irreversible en apariencia. Se hallen donde se hallen, los personajes de esta novela están permanentemente sometidos a la tentación de una existencia alternativa que puede trastrocar su destino. Quien ilumina estas vidas en transición y nos guía por estas evocadoras páginas es la mente del novelista Nathan Zuckerman. Su inteligencia, escéptica y envolvente, calcula el precio que ha de pagar todo el que desee modificar su suerte y dar nueva forma a la historia, sea en una clínica odontológica de los alrededores de Nueva Jersey, en un pueblo tradicional de Gloucestershire, en una iglesia del West End londinense o en un diminuto asentamiento judío de Cisjordania. > La contrevie, de Philip ROTH (Gallimard, 1989) Se reporter à la critique de François MAILHOT In: (1989). Compte rendu de [Littéature étrangère]. Nuit blanche, (37), p. 54… ; (en ligne), URL : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/20167ac An author's anti-Jewish antics come full circle when he feels discriminated against for being Jewish. If Roth embellished on such a plot, I'd have been satisfied. But he instead dwells on a few alternative histories revolving around men suffering mid-life crises. Specifically, how brothers view each other when they undergo operations to recover their masculinity. There's no room for love in The Counterlife, jam-packed as it is with vitriol. Against Jews or gentiles, West or East, partners or society. All expressed in eloquent and elongated monologues. I was looking for something more like Roth's more sensitive novels, the likes of Indignation, Human Stain and Nemesis. I marched on hoping for a denouement which strikes a chord. It never came. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieZuckerman Bound (5) Pertence à série publicadaDebolsillo Contemporánea (380/9) Gallimard, Folio (4382) rororo (23895) PrêmiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the miind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist's office in suburban New Jersey, or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, or in a church in London's West End, or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The second chapter "Judea" which is about the central protagonist going to Israel to visit his brother -gone miltant Zionist extremist, is compelling reading. ( )