by Philip Roth · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483464854
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Goodbye, Columbus is a collection of stories by American writer Philip Roth, published in 1959. The work includes the eponymous novella and five short stories. The main story tells the summer romance between Neil Klugman, a working-class young man, and Brenda Patimkin, a wealthy young woman from the suburbs. Through their relationship, Roth explores themes such as the clash of social classes, Jewish identity in postwar America, and the tensions between tradition and modernity. The stories that accompany the novella also address similar themes, offering a critical and often humorous look at the life of the American Jewish community.
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.
