by Philip A. Roth · ISBN 9782070337903
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«Le Complot contre l'Amérique» is Philip Roth's alternative history novel, published by Gallimard in 2007 in paperback, in French.
In this alternative history, the aviator Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 election against Franklin D. Roosevelt and signs a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. The novel follows the Roth family and the boy who will become Philip Roth, caught up in the growing antisemitism and the fear sweeping across the United States during Lindbergh's presidency.
Originally written in English as The Plot Against America, the novel was published in 2004. This French edition is from 2007 and received the WH Smith Literary Award and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize.
For readers of alternative histories and historical fiction interested in the rise of fascism and the work of Philip Roth.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
