Roth y su Nemesis

  De Philip Roth (Newark, 1933) se podría afirmar lo que dijo Borges a propósito de Quevedo: «No es un escritor, es una literatura». Desde que publicó su cuarto libro, El Lamento de Portnoy (1969), se convirtió en uno de los referentes imprescindibles del panorama literario universal. Dentro de su vasta producción, hay varias obras de […]

Nemesis, un fragmento de la nueva novela de Roth…

Les dejo aquí un fragmento de la nueva novela de Philip Roth. También les recomiendo leer El teatro de Sabath, Pastoral Americano y Portnoy’s Complaint. The first case of polio that summer came early in June, right after Memorial Day, in a poor Italian neighborhood crosstown from where we lived. Over in the city’s southwestern […]

Roth Vs. el grafómano…

[slideshow] Counterfeit Roth by Judith Thurman April 5, 2010 Last month, Paola Zanuttini, a journalist from La Repubblica, the progressive Roman newspaper, interviewed Philip Roth about his latest novel, “The Humbling,” which has recently been published in Italian. “We had a lively and intelligent conversation about my fiction,” Roth said. The Q. & A. ran […]