by Philip Roth · Contra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494331992
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For the first time in Spanish, 'The Great American Novel' is published, one of Philip Roth's most daring, funny and imperishable works. In this novel, Roth turns baseball into an opportunity for satire, full of heroism and treachery. Confined to an asylum, sports journalist Word Smith tries to write the great American novel from the story of the Ruppert Mundys, a baseball team from New Jersey. However, the communist conspiracy that infiltrated the US to destroy the 'American way of life' from within, annihilated through scandals and sabotage one of the main North American baseball leagues and, with it, the fate of its creators and players.
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.
