by Philip Roth · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432228124
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In 'Goodbye, Columbus', Philip Roth presents a short novel that narrates the summer romance between two young university students, Neil Klugman and Brenda Patimkin, from different social strata. Through their relationship, Roth explores themes of class and distrust in the North American Jewish community. This volume is completed with five stories that range from iconoclastic to tender, illuminating generational conflicts and the dynamics between neighbors and friends. The work, winner of the National Book Award, consolidated Roth as a writer of wit and insight, capable of deeply understanding his characters.
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.
