Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Milton Roth é um romancista norte-americano de origem judaica, considerado um dos maiores escritores norte-americanos da segunda metade do século XX. É conhecido sobretudo pelos romances, embora também tenha escrito contos e ensaios.
Entre as suas obras mais conhecidas encontra-se a colecção de contos «Goodbye, Columbus», de 1959, a novela «O complexo de Portnoy» , e a sua trilogia americana, publicada na década de 1990, composta pelas novelas «Pastoral Americana» , «Casei com um comunista» e «A Mancha humana» .
Muitas das suas obras reflectem os problemas de assimilação e identidade dos judeus dos Estados Unidos, o que o vincula a outros autores estado-unidenses como Saul Bellow, laureado com o Nobel de Literatura de 1976, ou Bernard Malamud, que também tratam nas suas obras a experiência dos judeus norte-americanos.
Grande parte da obra de Roth explora a natureza do desejo sexual e a autocompreensão. A marca registrada da sua ficção é o monólogo íntimo, dito com um humor amotinado e a energia histérica por vezes associada com as figuras do herói e narrador de «O complexo de Portnoy», a obra que o tornou conhecido.
Recebeu o Prémio Pulitzer de Ficção por Pastoral Americana em 1998. É conhecido sobretudo por seu alter-ego, Nathan Zuckerman protagonista de diversos de seus livros. É o único autor americano a ter suas obras completas publicadas em vida pela Library of America, que tem como missão editorial preservar as obras consideradas como parte da herança cultural americana .
Foi galardoado com o prestigioso Prémio Internacional Man Booker em 2011 .
Em 2012, Roth foi o vencedor do Prêmio Príncipe das Astúrias de Literatura . Em outubro do mesmo ano, em entrevista à revista francesa Les Inrockutibles , anuncia que abandona a carreira de escritor, sendo Nêmesis o seu ultimo trabalho .
Está se dedicando na produção da sua biografia, que está sendo escrita por Blake Bailey .

Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
sobre o candidato republicano à Presidência dos EUA
Fonte: Revista IstoÉ Edição 1617
Philip Roth livro Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth livro The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro Nemesis
Nemesis
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain
“Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.”
Philip Roth livro The Dying Animal
Fonte: The Dying Animal
“The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.”
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
The Human Stain (2000)
Contexto: There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.
“Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.”
Philip Roth livro American Pastoral
Fonte: American Pastoral
Philip Roth livro Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
Philip Roth livro The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
Paris Review Interview (1986)
Contexto: You ask if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book — if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that's otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn't fiction.
Philip Roth livro Goodbye, Columbus
Fonte: Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Chapter 2
Contexto: We came back to the chairs now and then and sang hesitant, clever, nervous, gentle dithyrambs about how we were beginning to feel towards one another. Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them-at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them. We whipped our strangeness and newness into a froth that resembled love, and we dared not play too long with it, talk too much of it, or it would flatten and fizzle away. So we moved back and forth from chairs to water, from talk to silence, and considering my unshakable edginess with Brenda, and the high walls of ego that rose, buttresses and all, between her and her knowledge of herself, we managed pretty well.
“No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in today.”
Comparing Charles Lindbergh's leadership of an "America First" movement with that of Donald Trump, in responses to being asked about foreseeing an America such as now exists in his earlier writings, including his alternate-history novel The Plot Against America (2004) where Lindbergh defeated FDR for the presidency in 1940, as quoted in "No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say" by Charles Mcgrath, in The New York Times (16 January 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/books/review/philip-roth-interview.html <br class="br">Contexto: No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in today. No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously described American democracy as “the worship of jackals by jackasses”) could have imagined that the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the U. S. A., the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously ridiculous commedia dell’arte figure of the boastful buffoon. How naïve I was in 1960 to think that I was an American living in preposterous times! How quaint! But then what could I know in 1960 of 1963 or 1968 or 1974 or 2001 or 2016? … However prescient The Plot Against America might seem to you, there is surely one enormous difference between the political circumstances I invent there for the U. S. in 1940 and the political calamity that dismays us so today. It’s the difference in stature between a President Lindbergh and a President Trump. Charles Lindbergh, in life as in my novel, may have been a genuine racist and an anti-Semite and a white supremacist sympathetic to Fascism, but he was also — because of the extraordinary feat of his solo trans-Atlantic flight at the age of 25 — an authentic American hero 13 years before I have him winning the presidency. … Trump, by comparison, is a massive fraud, the evil sum of his deficiencies, devoid of everything but the hollow ideology of a megalomaniac.
Comparing Charles Lindbergh's leadership of an "America First" movement with that of Donald Trump, in responses to being asked about foreseeing an America such as now exists in his earlier writings, including his alternate-history novel The Plot Against America (2004) where Lindbergh defeated FDR for the presidency in 1940, as quoted in "No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say" by Charles Mcgrath, in The New York Times (16 January 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/books/review/philip-roth-interview.html <br class="br">Contexto: No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in today. No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously described American democracy as “the worship of jackals by jackasses”) could have imagined that the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the U. S. A., the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously ridiculous commedia dell’arte figure of the boastful buffoon. How naïve I was in 1960 to think that I was an American living in preposterous times! How quaint! But then what could I know in 1960 of 1963 or 1968 or 1974 or 2001 or 2016? … However prescient The Plot Against America might seem to you, there is surely one enormous difference between the political circumstances I invent there for the U. S. in 1940 and the political calamity that dismays us so today. It’s the difference in stature between a President Lindbergh and a President Trump. Charles Lindbergh, in life as in my novel, may have been a genuine racist and an anti-Semite and a white supremacist sympathetic to Fascism, but he was also — because of the extraordinary feat of his solo trans-Atlantic flight at the age of 25 — an authentic American hero 13 years before I have him winning the presidency. … Trump, by comparison, is a massive fraud, the evil sum of his deficiencies, devoid of everything but the hollow ideology of a megalomaniac.
“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”
Philip Roth livro American Pastoral
Fonte: American Pastoral
“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”
Philip Roth livro American Pastoral
Fonte: American Pastoral
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
Fonte: The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
Fonte: The Human Stain
Fonte: Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
“How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.”
Fonte: The Professor Of Desire
Philip Roth livro The Plot Against America
Fonte: The Plot Against America
“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”
Philip Roth livro Portnoy's Complaint
Fonte: Portnoy's Complaint
“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”
Philip Roth livro A Mancha Humana
Fonte: The Human Stain
Philip Roth livro Portnoy's Complaint
Fonte: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)