by Philip A. Roth · Gallimard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070126163
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«Le rabaissement» is the novel by Philip Roth, published by Gallimard in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Simon Axler, a celebrated actor of sixty-five, loses faith in his talent and abandons the stage. The public and Axler's wife abandon him; he falls into depression and ends up in a psychiatric hospital. There he meets Pegee, a young lesbian, and an erotic passion seems to bring him back to life, but his illusions fuel his humiliation.
Originally published in 2009 as «The Humbling», this French edition was translated by Marie-Claire Pasquier and appeared in 2011 in the Du monde entier collection from Gallimard.
For fans of Philip Roth and contemporary literary fiction focused on old age and identity.
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.
