by Philip Roth · Literatura Random House · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439720355
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«Elegía» is the novel by Philip Roth, published by Literatura Random House in hardcover (160 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows a New York advertising creative from his first childhood awareness of death to old age, when physical decline and broken bonds confront him with loss and regret. It is a reflection on the passage of time and the fragility of the body; the title alludes to an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical drama.
Novel originally published as «Everyman» in 2006; this Spanish edition, translated by Jordi Fibla. Elegía received the PEN/Faulkner Award 2007.
Readers of Philip Roth and contemporary fiction who want a sober story about old age and loss.
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.
