American Pastoral

I was not a fan.......more

It is getting exceedingly rare to find books that are well-written and yet hard-hitting and surprising at nearly every turn. Usually, you get just one (like the nearly unreadable Infinite Jest that I can still not get through) or the other (like The Outfit or, say, Game of Thrones). So, when my movi......more

Third reading. The book starts off as an homage to a man the narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, looked up to as a child because of his athletic achievements in local sports: Seymour Levov, the "Swede." It also presents itself in the early going as an homage to the so-called "greatest generation." But this......more

This is Roth's masterpiece, in case you want to read one or two of his books, now that he is gone. Apparently Philip Roth was a difficult man. He had a reputation, by his own admission, as a cad, a bounder, profligate. "Reputation," which doesn't mean it is true, though it may be. His ex-wife, the a......more

O capodoperă. O versiune modernă a tragediei lui Iov... Seymour Irving Levov, numit și „Suedezul” de către colegii de liceu și admirat unanim pentru însușirile lui atletice ieșite din comun, nu e numaidecît un caz exemplar, un simbol al reușitei sociale, cum pare a-l prezenta la început naratorul, ve......more