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Indlæser... The Humbling (original 2009; udgave 2009)af Philip Roth
Work InformationYdmygelsen af Philip Roth (2009)
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 No amount of past achievement should blind one to a writer's present failings and it has to be said that Roth's new novel is, by his standards, dismayingly poor. Roth has always had a tendency to veer off into realms of extravagant silliness; the most egregious example of this was his 1972 novella The Breast, which reworked Kafka's Metamorphosis so that the hero wakes up not as an insect but as a giant mammary gland. The Humbling belongs in the same dubious company. Mr. Roth recounts these events in an offhand manner, as though he were simply going through the motions of ticking off plot points on a spindly, ill-conceived outline. The women in Simon’s life are all female caricatures, devoid of any nuance or inner life, and Simon himself — much like the nameless hero of “Everyman” — turns out to be a generic old guy: a sort of faceless avatar set up as a punching bag for all the indignities an aging man might suffer. Tilhører ForlagsserienGallimard, Folio (5735) HæderspriserDistinctions
What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Consumed by an erotic desire, he plunges into a darker and more shocking end. No library descriptions found. |
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