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Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's Everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers and during his hospitalisation as a nine-year-old surgical patient through the crises of health that come close to killing him as a vigorous adult, and into his old age, when he is undone by the death and deterioration…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's Everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers and during his hospitalisation as a nine-year-old surgical patient through the crises of health that come close to killing him as a vigorous adult, and into his old age, when he is undone by the death and deterioration of his contemporaries and relentlessly stalked by his own menacing physical woes. A successful commercial advertising artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him, the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. "Everyman" is a painful human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be. The terrain of this savagely sad short novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

Drei gescheiterte Ehen, ein gestörtes Verhältnis zu seinen Kindern, körperliche Gebrechen und der Tod von Altersgenossen: Der neue Roman von Philip Roth erzählt die traurige Geschichte eines Mannes, der dem Alter und Tod ins Auge blickt und voller Bedauern und Schuldgefühle auf sein vergangenes Leben zurückblickt.

Autorenporträt
Philip Roth wurde 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, geboren. Für sein Werk wurde er mit allen bedeutenden amerikanischen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet. Im Jahre 2001 erhielt er die höchste Auszeichnung der American Academy of Arts and Letters, die Goldmedaille für Belletristik, die alle sechs Jahre für das Gesamtwerk eines Autors verliehen wird. 2006 wurde Philiph Roth mit dem "Pen/Nabokov-Preis" ausgezeichnet, 2007 erhielt er den "Saul-Bellow-Preis" des Schriftsteller-Verbands, 2009 den "Welt"-Literaturpreis und 2011 wurde er mit dem "Man Booker International Prize" ausgezeichnet. Im Jahr 2012 wurde ihm der Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis in der Kategorie Literatur verliehen.