The Facts
A Novelist's Autobiography

* UPDATED: May 22, 2018: R.I.P., Philip Roth. He never wrote an autobiography (there are a couple of biographies out there, and Blake Bailey is currently writing another). This is the closest Roth came to writing about "himself": *** Up until the final chapter, I was all set to give 3 stars to this bo......more

Dietro la maschera E mentre lui parlava, io pensavo: "In che razza di storie la gente trasforma la vita, in che razza di vite la gente trasforma le storie". [Nathan Zuckerman, in La controvita] L'antefatto finalmente mio!* lo inizio subito in preda ad una irrefrenabile ingordigia letteraria :-) Comincio a......more

Rotated back to Philip Roth after years away because he's a connection to my father, who grew up in the same Weequahic neighborhood of Newark and attended the same high school, nine years younger than Roth. I remember my father reading this maybe thirty years ago and exclaiming that Roth is describi......more

This was such a unique book. Written with characteristic polish, and veering off into, or rather structurally framed by, a meta experimental conceit that has Roth commenting on his own work via his fictional counterpart, Nathan Zuckerman, whose lengthy critique makes Roth a character in his own life......more

Nelle primissime pagine Roth scrive una lettera a Zuckerman, il suo alter ego letterario, dicendogli il motivo per cui ha scritto questo libro e chiedendogli se secondo lui deve pubblicarlo. Superati i cinquanta, reduce da un forte esaurimento nervoso, Roth cerca di ricapitolare la sua vita e snocci......more