by Philip Roth · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070315932
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On the verge of retirement, a professor of classical literature is accused of making racist comments and prefers to resign rather than reveal the secret that could exonerate him. While the Lewinsky affair makes headlines, Nathan Zuckerman investigates his neighbor Coleman Silk and discovers that behind the seemingly orderly life of the former dean lies an extraordinary past: that of a man who has completely reinvented himself. His present is equally devastating, marked by his relationship with Faunia, a sensual thirty-four-year-old cleaner. 'The Human Stain' completes Philip Roth's trilogy on individual identity in a postwar America full of changes, where nothing is unequivocal and everything is mixed.
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.
