El animal moribundo
Roth, Philip, (aut.); Fibla Feito, Jordi, (tr.)
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Add to basket2013. 1ª ed.,1ª imp. mass_market. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Sólo el sexo y el fulgor de la belleza sirven para luchar contra el destino.
Una de las novelas más penetrantes y abrasivas de Philip Roth, llevada a la gran pantalla por Isabel Coixet.
«No importa cuánto sepas, no importa cuánto pienses, no importa cuánto maquines, finjas y planees, no estás por encima del sexo.»
Así habla David Kepesh, reputado crítico cultural, profesor estrella de una universidad neoyorquina y también elocuente defensor de la revolución sexual. Hace décadas que se ha acostumbrado a acostarse con alumnas y a la vez mantener la distancia crítica de un esteta. Pero ahora esa distancia ha sido aniquilada.
La responsable del desmoronamiento de Kepesh es Consuelo Castillo, una mujer de veinticuatro años, hija de ricos exiliados cubanos, de modales refinados y humillantemente bella. Cuando Kepesh, de sesenta y dos, la convierte en su nueva conquista, se ve arrastrado inesperadamente al oscuro lodazal de los celos y el miedo a perderla.
En el retrato de esta caída, Philip Roth demuestra una extraordinaria versatilidad al explorar temas como la sexualidad y la muerte, el libertinaje y la represión, el egoísmo y el sacrificio. El animal moribundo es un libro abrasivo, lleno de fuego intelectual y no exento de peligros.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Una pequeña y perturbadora obra maestra.»
David Lodge, The New York Review of Books
«La mejor novela que he leído en todo el año. Rica, compleja, inmensamente provocadora.»
John Preston, The Sunday Telegraph
Philip Roth (1933-2018) obtuvo el Premio Pulitzer en 1997 por Pastoral Americana. En 1998 recibió la Medalla Nacional de las Artes en la Casa Blanca y, en 2002, el máximo galardón de la Academia Americana de las Artes y Letras, la Medalla de Oro de Narrativa, previamente otorgada a John Dos Passos, William Faulkner y Saul Bellow, entre otros. Ha sido galardonado en dos ocasiones con el National Book Award, el PEN/Faulkner Award y el National Book Critics Circle Award.
En 2005, La conjura contra América recibió el premio de la Society of American Historians, concedido a «su destacada novela histórica en 2003-2004 sobre un tema histórico norteamericano» y el Premio W.H. Smith por el mejor libro del año, convirtiendo a Roth en el primer escritor en ganarlo dos veces en los cuarenta y seis años de historia del premio.
En 2005, Roth se convirtió en el tercer escritor norteamericano vivo cuya obra publicó la Library of America en una edición completa y definitiva. En 2011 recibió la National Humanities Medal en la Casa Blanca, y fue nombrado posteriormente el cuarto ganador del Man Booker International Prize. En 2012 ganó el máximo galardón de España, el Premio Príncipe de Asturias, y en 2013 ganó el más prestigioso de Francia, el Comandante de la Legión de Honor.
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