Pastoral Americana (Contempora)

No cover — Philip Roth: Pastoral Americana (Contempora) (Paperback, Spanish language)

Paperback, 512 pages

Spanish language

ISBN:: 978-84-9793-610-1

(2 reviews)

American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk".

American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Seven years later, the novel was included in Time's List of the 100 Best Novels, a list covering the period between 1923 and 2005. In 2006, it was one of the runners-up to Toni Morrison's Beloved, in the "What is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?" contest held by the New York Times Book Review.

Also contained in: American Trilogy 1997-2000

American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk".

American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Seven years later, the novel was included in Time's List of the 100 Best Novels, a list covering the period between 1923 and 2005. In 2006, it was one of the runners-up to Toni Morrison's Beloved, in the "What is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?" contest held by the New York Times Book Review.

Also contained in: American Trilogy 1997-2000

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4 stars

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¿Qué puede llevar a una niña de bien, de una familia trabajadora, con un padre exitoso, una mamá hermosa, a convertirse en terrorista?

Roth hace un estudio de personaje de cada uno: Swede, Merry, Dawn. Esto es, para mi, lo que hace valioso el libro. Las descripciones de las discusiones familiares y entre los amigos seguramente son las que llegaran a la película, que no podrá capturar los personajes.

Por otra parte, es un libro lento. Las primeras 100 páginas, la descripción de la reunión, la descripción del escritor, para mi son otra novela, una que no me interesó mucho.

Teri Vera

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Dec. 20, 2021

Subjects

Literary Criticism
Spanish: Adult Nonfiction
European - Spanish & Portuguese