Best Selling Books by Philip Roth

《我嫁给了共产党人》 I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. In this story, cruelty, betrayal, and revenge spilling over into the public arena from their origins in Ira''s turbulent personal life． 这个苦涩的、略带诙谐的故事自始至终都是那么引人入胜，它唤醒了我们共有的历史中那个特定的时间和地点……立体重现了二战后的理想主义和伪善。

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years "An incandescent fiction.... American Pastoral scintillates with more Rothian wit, paradox, eloquent tantrums and absurd pratfalls placed at the exit of each irresistible argument that can be counted.... He strikes a vivid blaze." --Los Angeles Times Book Review The first book in the brilliant American Trilogy of postwar set novels, American Pastoral dissects the American dream during the social upheaval of the 1960s and is widely considered to be one Philip Roth''s masterpieces. Seymour "Swede" Levov--a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father''s Newark glove factory--comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok, including his beloved daughter Merry, who commits an outlandish act of political terrorism. Not even the most private, well-intentioned citizen, it seems, gets to sidestep the sweep of history. With vigorous realism, Roth takes us back to the conflicts and violent transitions of the 1960s. It''s a book about wanting to belong--and refusing to belong--to America. It sets the desire for an American pastoral--a respectable life of space, calm, order, optimism, and achievement--against the American Berserk.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral comes the story of a leading American stage actor who’s lost his magic but finds deliverance in the form of a vibrant, ever-subversive, much younger woman. "A taut and controlled fever-dream that demands to be experienced at a single sitting” —Los Angeles Times Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is now in his sixties and has lost his magic, talent, and assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, “are melted into air, into thin air.” When his wife leaves him, and after a stint at a mental hospital, he retires to his upstate New York country house and hopes for salvation, which arrives in the form of the lithe Pegeen Stapleford, the daughter of old friends and 25 years his junior. In this tight, surprising narrative told with Roth’s inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity, we confront the terrifying fragility of all our life’s performances.

《人性的污秽》 It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. “美国三部曲”的登峰之作，与前两部相比，小说中各元素之间更加制衡，更具整体性，对人性的探讨更加彻底。小说重磅炸弹似的主题，注定其成为各方评论的主题。

O primeiro livro de Philip Roth foi premiado e granjeou-lhe imediatamente a reputação de escritor de ironia explosiva, capacidade de observação impiedosa e compaixão pelas suas personagens, mesmo pelas mais desprovidas de sentido da realidade. Goodbye, Columbus é a história de Neil Klugman e da bonita e ousada Brenda Patimkin, ele da pobre Newark, ela do bairro suburbano de Short Hills, que se conhecem numas férias de Verão e mergulham numa relação que diz tanto das classes sociais e da suspeita como do amor. A novela é acompanhada de cinco contos cujo registo vai da iconoclastia à ternura sem reservas. Philip Roth ganhou o Prémio Pulitzer com Pastoral Americana em 1997. Em 1998 recebeu a Medalha Nacional de Artes da Casa Branca e, em 2002, o mais alto galardão da Academia Americana de Artes e Letras, a Medalha de Ouro da Ficção, anteriormente atribuída a John dos Passos, William Faulkner e Saul Bellow, entre outros. Ganhou três vezes o PEN/Faulkner Award e o National Book Critics Award. Em 2005 A Conspiração contra a América recebeu o prémio da Sociedade de historiadores Americanos pelo «excecional romance histórico sobre um tema americano, relativo a 2003-2004». Roth recebeu dois dos mais prestigiados prémios do PEN: em 2006, o PEN/Nabokov «pelo conjunto da obra [...] de originalidade constante e artisticamente perfeita» e, em 2007, o PEN/Saul Bellow de Consagração na Ficção Americana, dado ao escritor cujo apuro ao longo de uma carreira sustentada o coloca ao mais alto nível da literatura americana. Roth é o único escritor americano vivo a ter a obra publicada numa edição completa e definitiva pela Library of America. Em 2011 Roth recebeu o Man Booker International Prize. Foi o quarto autor a receber esta distinção.

''The comedy of neuroses, as Roth practices it, has much of the elegance of an 18th-century comedy of manners, but it also allows itself plenty of latitude. ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND has room for farce, when Zuckerman spends a night with an Irish film star whose steady lover is Fidel Castro; as well as for a full, accomplished treatment of a grim routine, the death of a Jewish father. But mainly it has one great comic character, tha sad and threatening Alvin Pepler, ex-Marine and ex-Tv celebrity, now alleging the theft of his private hang-ups, which are on the same lines as Portnoy''s, for use in the famous novel. In this chapter Dickens and Waugh live again'' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS.

This fourth volume of The Library of Americas definitive edition of Roths collected works presents four novels that recount the story of budding American writer Nathan Zuckerman. Includes "The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson," and "The Prague Orgy."

Mickey Sabbath, traurig-komischer Held des Romans von Philip Roth, ist am Ende. Einst hat er als Puppenspieler die Zuschauer am Broadway entzückt, nun sind seine Finger steif und arthritisch verkrümmt. Der Artist will sterben. In einem grellen Bilderbogen zieht sein Leben noch einmal an ihm vorbei, eine Abfolge von erotischen Niederlagen und vermeintlichen Triumphen, die seine überreizte Phantasie in allen Details ausmalt. »Philip Roth triumphiert noch einmal mit einem großen Roman: fürchterlich, unverfroren und unwiderstehlich.« DER SPIEGEL

Eine schreckliche Epidemie bedroht im brütend heißen Sommer von 1944 die Einwohner von Newark: Polio. Der Sportlehrer Bucky Cantor kümmert sich hingebungsvoll um seine Schüler. Nach Ausbruch der Krankheit versucht er, in einer von Angst, Panik und Leid gezeichneten Situation die Ruhe zu bewahren, doch vergeblich. "Nemesis" ist die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes in Amerika mit besten Absichten, der einen aussichtslosen Kampf führt. In seinem neuen Meisterwerk zeichnet Roth mit bestechender Präzision und großer Einfühlungsgabe jeden Schritt von Cantors Weg in die persönliche Katastrophe.

For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth ?our foremost novelist since Faulkner.? Roth?s comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arrangement with the author, The Library of America continues the definitive edition of Roth?s collected works. This fifth volume of The Library of America?s definitive edition of Philip Roth?s collected works presents four books that exemplify the description of Roth, proposed by British novelist Anthony Burgess, as a writer ?who never steps twice into the same river.? The Counterlife (1986) is a novel told from conflicting perspectives about people enacting drastic dreams of renewal and escape. The Facts (1988)?the first of the ?Roth Books??is a novelist?s autobiography in which the author presents his own battles defictionalized and unadorned. In the second Roth book, Deception (1990), a married American named Philip, living in London, and the married Englishwoman who is his mistress meet sporadically in a secret trysting place where the woman eloquently reveals herself to her lover as they talk before and after making love. In the third Roth book, Patrimony (1991), the author watches as his 86-year-old father, Herman Roth, battles a fatal brain tumor. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America''s definitive edition of Philip Roth''s collected works is the acclaimed American Trilogy, a major milestone in contemporary American literature. In American Pastoral (1997), Swede Levov is wrenched from the tranquility of his domestic life and into the turbulent 1960s by his cherished daughter, an antiwar terrorist. I Married a Communist (1998), a story of betrayal set in America''s anti-Communist 1940s, recounts the rise and fall of radio star Ira Ringold, exposed by his wife as "an American taking his orders from Moscow." The Human Stain (2000) is set in 1998, when America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president; in a small New England college town an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would astonish his most virulent accuser. Philip Roth is the only living novelist whose works are being collected in the Library of America series. The nine-volume edition will be completed in 2013, for Roth''s 80th birthday. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Selections from nine novels following Goodbye Columbus, Roth''s first book, including Letting Go, Portnoy''s Complaint, and The Ghost Writer, chronicle Roth''s satiric and sensitive examination of art, life, and personal crisis

A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang" "is Philip Roth'' s brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon. In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn'' t have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public.

Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you''ve never heard of them-or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history-it''s because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball''s status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Nous sommes en 1951, seconde année de la guerre de Corée. Marcus Messner, jeune homme de dix-neuf ans, intense et sérieux, d''origine juive, poursuit ses études au Winesburg College, dans le fin fond de l''Ohio. Il a quitté l''école de Newark, dans le New Jersey, où habite sa famille. Il espère par ce changement échapper à la domination de son père, boucher de sa profession, un homme honnête et travailleur, mais qui est depuis quelque temps la proie d''une véritable paranoïa au sujet de son fils bien-aimé. Fierté et amour, telles sont les sources de cette peur panique. Marcus, en s''éloignant de ses parents, va tenter sa chance dans une Amérique encore inconnue de lui, pleine d''embûches, de difficultés et de surprises. Indignation, le vingt-neuvième livre de Philip Roth, propose une forme de roman d''apprentissage : c''est une histoire d''audace et de folie, d''erreurs et de tâtonnements, de résistances et de révélations, tant sur le plan sexuel qu''intellectuel. Renonçant à sa description minutieuse de la vieillesse et de son cortège de maux, Philip Roth poursuit avec l''énergie habituelle son analyse de l''histoire de l''Amérique - celle des années cinquante, des tabous et des frustrations sexuelles - et de son impact sur la vie d''un homme jeune, isolé, vulnérable.