by Philip Roth · Ápeiron Ediciones · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422693451
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«La mancha humana» is the novel by Philip Roth published in hardcover edition (411 pages, in Spanish).
The novel delves into identity, racism, and the consequences of personal decisions. Through a protagonist marked by his past, it reflects on how prejudices and one's own actions end up conditioning his present.
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.
