Biography
Philip Roth is the largest American Prose of XX and the beginning of the XXI century. For six decades, the writer has published books, poured religious and sexual taboos.Childhood and youth
The writer was born on March 19, 1933 in Newark New Jersey State. Malaya Motherland Philip Dala America many writers. Rota countrymen - Hipster Poet Allen Ginzberg and the author of detectives Harlan Koben.
Philip grew up in a Jewish family, the morals of which described in the work of the "tailor case". The ancestors of the Father, the insurance broker German company, lived in the city of Kozlov Lviv province. The ancestors of the mother, nee Bess Finkel, from the surroundings of Kiev.
In 1950, Philip graduated from Secondary School Weequahic. Teachers described the company as an intellectual young man combining witness and sanity. The year of young man has studied at the University of Ratgers, located in his hometown, and then transferred to Pennsylvania University Bacnell, where he received a bachelor's degree with honors in English. The master's thesis on the English literature Roth was defended at the University of Chicago.
The trauma of the back, obtained at the forearm preparation, freed the guy from the urgent service. From youth and until 1991, the mouth taught comparative literary analysis and a creative letter at US universities.
Personal life
The writer married twice. Each of official marriages lasted for 4 years. From the first companion Margaret Martinson Philip met in 1956, and we looked at the relationship in 1959. When in 1968, 5 years after the divorce, the woman died in a car accident, the experience of the writer was reflected in the book "My Men's True". Earlier, Margaret became the prototype of Heroine Lucy Nelson in the novel "She was so good."Marriage with British actress Claire Bloom 57-year-old Roth concluded not only after 14 years of relationship, but also after the grand scandal associated with the use of the writer of the personal life of the bride and her family in the "Deception" novel. In the work of the characters called Philip and Claire, their fate reminded the biographies of the author and his beloved. At the request of Bloom Rot changed the name of the heroine.
In the memoirs of Leaving Puppet House, Claire described the first year of marriage as happy. However, according to Women, harmony prevented the work of the writer, and Philip began to manifest himself as a woman's laminator and an absurr.
In 1994, the writer and actress divorced. The media was replicated by the quotation from Monuarov Bloom "The abyss between the words and affairs of the company is enormous." The answer to the Book of the Former Wife was the work of Philip "My husband - Communist", in which Claire was derived under the name of Eva Freim.
Books
The debut book of the company, which included the story "Goodbye, Columbus" and 4 stories, was awarded the National Literary Prize in the 1960s. After 35 years, the writer repeated success, having received the same reward for the work of the Shabbat Theater.
In 1962, the writer published the first novel "Navy". The peculiarity of the work is the presentation of the part of the events from the face of the central character of Gabe Wallach, and the parts are from the face of the all-seeing narrator. In the further bibliography, Roths prevailed exactly novels.
In the 70s of the 20th century, the writer experimented with genres, hesitating from political satire in the work of "our gang" to the "Kafkianism" in the "chest". By the end of the decade, the mouth created his alter ego - the character of Nathan Zuckerman, who was present in a number of subsequent books (in particular, in the famous "American pastoral") as a hero, a storyteller or an interlocutor of the author.
The action of the novel "Human Stamp", in which Zuckerman is also acting, unfolds against the background of the impeachment hearings Bill Clinton. Nathan talks about the neighbor of Colemen Silka, dismissed from college for statements, interpreted by the leadership as racist. Gradually, the details of the biography of Coleman, about which the man tried to forget. In the adaptation of the work - the film "Spotted Reputation" - the main roles played by Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman
In the novel "Conspiracy against America", the writer acts in the genre of alternative history. In the plot in the 1940 election, Franklin Roosevelt wins, and the pilot Charles Lidberg. The United States become allies of Hitler Germany and together decide the "Jewish question". The pilot, which in 1927, a non-repaying flight from New York to Paris, really repeatedly expressed racist and anti-Semitic phrases and believed that America's participation in the war is beneficial only to Jews.
In the third millennium, criticism regularly said that the mouth deserves the Nobel Prize in literature. Although Philip died, never received the highest writing award, the prose was one of the most titled writers. On one of the last photos, the company is captured by the author's handshake "American pastoral" with Barack Obama: President-Democrat awarded the Writer by the US National Humanitarian Medal.
Death
Philip died at the Manhattan Hospital on May 22, 2018. The cause of the death of the writer was heart failure. In accordance with the will of the mouth, the mouth is buried not next to the parents at the Jewish cemetery of Newark, but on the graveyard of the New York Bard College.The theme of the limbs of human life passed through all the work of the prose. Especially bright mouth opposed the death of love in the late novels-flourishing "dying animal" and "Ghost is out".
In the first book, which is the final part of the trilogy about David Kippeska, the elderly professor, like Oleg Sokolov, regularly turns intrigues with students. One of the beloved David is sick of breast cancer. Based on the novel in 2008, Elizabeth Coishet shot a melodramatic film "Elegy". The main roles in the film was performed by Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz. In the "Ghost", a solitude, the writer falls in love with a young woman and spends a literary gift for the composition of the dialogues with an imaginary beloved.
Bibliography
- 1959 - "Farewell, Columbus"
- 1962 - "Decoration"
- 1967 - "She was so good"
- 1969 - "tailor case"
- 1974 - "My Men's True"
- 1990 - "Deception"
- 1995 - Shabbat Theater
- 1997 - "American Pastoral"
- 1998 - "My husband is a communist"
- 2000 - "Human Stamp"
- 2004 - "Conspiracy against America"
- 2007 - "Ghost is out"
- 2011 - "Nemesis"
Trilogy about David Killche
- 1972 - "Chest"
- 1977 - "Professor of Desire"
- 2001 - "Dying Animal"
Novels about Zuckerman
- Trilogy "Cool Zuckerman"
- 1979 - "Literary Negro"
- 1981 - "Liberated Zuckerman"
- 1983 - "Anatomy Lesson"
Epilogue
- 1985 - "Prague Orgy"