by Philip Roth · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070417360
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«Pastorale américaine» is the novel by American writer Philip Roth, published by Folio in paperback (592 pages, in French).
The novel recounts writer Nathan Zuckerman's reunion with Seymour Levov, the Swede: owner of a thriving glove business, married to Miss New Jersey 1949, and settled in a stone house in the countryside. That image of the American dream shatters with Merry, his rebellious daughter, and with the turbulent America of the sixties, with the streets of Newark in flames.
First installment of Philip Roth's American Trilogy, originally published as American Pastoral in 1997 and translated by Josée Kamoun. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs wanting to explore American society of the sixties.
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.
