by Philip A. Roth · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499224331
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«Amerikanisches Idyll» is the novel by Philip Roth, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch in paperback (574 pages, in German).
The novel follows Seymour 'Swede' Levov, former high school athlete from Newark, heir to his father's glove factory, married to a former Miss New Jersey and settled in Old Rimrock. In the late 1960s his perfect life falls apart, and Roth portrays the disillusionment of the American middle class and the fragility of the American dream.
The novel received the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and is the first installment of Philip Roth's American trilogy. German translation by Werner Schmitz.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
