by Philip Roth · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499082660
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An intimate story of inexperience, imprudence, intellectual resistance, sexual discoveries, courage and terror from the genius of American literature Philip Roth. It is 1951, the second year of the Korean War. Marcus Messner, from Newark, New Jersey, begins his second course at the bucolic and conservative University of Winesburg, in Ohio. Why is he there? Because his father, a hardworking neighborhood butcher, seems to have lost his mind, crazy with fear and apprehension about the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers that lurk around every corner for his beloved son. Indignation, a story of the formation of a young man in the tremendous risks and strange obstacles of life, joins Roth's sharp explorations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable isolated individual.
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.
