by Philip A. Roth · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070371853
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«Goodbye, Columbus» is the collection of short stories by Philip Roth, published by Gallimard in paperback (369 pages, in French).
The volume brings together six narratives about American Jewish life in the twentieth century. In the title novella, Neil Klugman, of humble origins, becomes involved with Brenda Patimkin, from a wealthy family, during a summer marked by class differences. The other stories address identity, family, the army and Holocaust memory.
The original work was published in 1959 and won the National Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award in 1960; this French translation appeared in 1980.
Will appeal to readers of Philip Roth's fiction and twentieth-century American Jewish literature.
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.
