by Philip Roth · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432228063
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The Counterlife is a novel by acclaimed author Philip Roth, exploring themes of identity, destiny, and the choices that define our lives. Through the mind of novelist Nathan Zuckerman, the story leads us to reflect on lives in transition and the consequences of seeking an alternative existence. Set in various locations, from New Jersey to a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, this work invites reflection on the price of modifying our destiny and the search for a new form of history. An incisive and electrifying novel that combines colloquial ease with a deep load of reflective intelligence.
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.
