Synopsis
Jedna z póznych powiesci Philipa Rotha, traktujaca o zmaganiu sie ze staroscia i odchodzeniu. Intymna i zarazem uniwersalna. Przepelniona poczuciem straty i zalem. Jej tytul pisarz zaczerpnal z pietnastowiecznego moralitetu.
Ksiazka zaczyna sie od pogrzebu glównego bohatera. Potem losy Everymana sledzimy, poczynajac od jego pierwszego szokujacego zetkniecia ze smiercia na idyllicznej plazy w czasach dziecinstwa, poprzez kolejne malzenskie próby i osiagniecia zawodowe mezczyzny w kwiecie wieku, az po starosc, kiedy kolejno zegna swoich rówiesników i walczy z niedoskonalosciami ciala, które odmawia mu posluszenstwa.
To wlasnie starzejace sie ludzkie cialo - co czeste u Rotha - staje sie glównym bohaterem tej malej (niespelna 170 stron!), lecz poteznej ksiazki. Nieunikniona kolej rzeczy, budzaca w nas jednakowe przerazenie, której doswiadczymy wszyscy.
Bohater Rotha jest Kazdym naszych czasów, mimo - a moze dlatego - ze jego zycie jest tak bardzo zwyczajne, a final przewidywalny. Na poczatku wspominaja go najblizsi, nastepnie opowiesc snuje narrator, czyli sam Roth, który przypisuje mu ostateczna konstatacje pozbawiona nadziei: ,,Uwolniony od istnienia, przeniósl sie bezwiednie w kraine nigdzie. Tak jak sie tego obawial od samego poczatku".
Zbigniew Pietrasik, ,,Polityka"
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Review
"A brilliantly compressed account of a life." -- Christopher Tayler, The Sunday Telegraph, Seven
"Anything new by Roth is a welcome treat...the book is full of wit and insight" -- Tatler, Sebastian Shakespeare
"Every sentence and every paragraph works with the coiled precision of the watch mechanisms that the narrators father repairs" -- Tim Martin, Independent on Sunday
"Unexpectedly moving and written in an inviting easy story-telling style..." -- The Economist
"it is worth mentioning what a readable writer Roth is...has always had the knack of drawing his reader along" -- TLS, Benjamin Markovits
"paints a rich portrait" -- Daily Mail, Michael Arditti
"sombre but always lively novella" -- Monday Independent rvd by Paul bailey
"this is as dark a novel as Roth has written yet it reads like a dream" -- Sunday Herald, Alan Taylor
A very distinguished novel...presents the reader with life’s one certainty and does so with great power." -- Leo Robson, Express
fascinating family saga which reveals a corner of American
Culture
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From the Publisher
A magnificent new novel from the Pulitzer-prize winning author, whose most recent novel, The Plot Against America, was hailed as 'the first fictional masterpiece of the twenty-first century'.
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. Gebogener Buchrücken. There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York Times best-selling author of American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, and numerous other distinctions. The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm 34! Worry about oblivion when you're 75." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man. A masterful portrait of one man's inner struggles, Everyman is a brilliant showcase for one of the world's most distinguished novelists. Seller Inventory # 11bc4282-1b34-4380-a4da-b3e95a47e5ba
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Everyman (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek)
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Reclam, Philipp, jun. GmbH, Verlag, 2008
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