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A carregar... The plot against America (original 2004; edição 2004)por Philip Roth
Pormenores da obraThe Plot against America por Philip Roth (2004)
  
Top Five Books of 2013 (523) » 23 mais Unread books (191) Books Read in 2020 (410) Best Dystopias (194) 2000s decade (58) Alternate Americas (10) Best Family Stories (146) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A transformação paulatina da sociedade e de cada um, na cedência e consumo das ideias e comportamentos mais abjectos, perante a ameaça nazi idealizada a partir de uma situação histórica imaginada. Um aviso à navegação nos nossos dias. (  ) ElsaConde | Feb 28, 2013 | 
 Philip Roth has written a terrific political novel, though in a style his readers might never have predicted — a fable of an alternative universe, in which America has gone fascist and ordinary life has been flattened under a steamroller of national politics and mass hatreds. Young Philip's greatest epiphany is to recognise the difference between history as taught in school - harmless and inevitable - and history as it's lived through, "the relentless unforeseen". His novel is a different kind of history again, an imagined past which, if we learn from it, might save us from a calamitous future. It's not Roth's funniest novel (and there's hardly any sex). But in its sweep and chutzpah, it ranks with his great trilogy of the late-90s. Isn't it time they gave him the Nobel? Philip Roth's huge, inflammatory, painfully moving new novel draws upon a persistent theme in American life: "It can't happen here." That's how we express our longing to believe that our ideals are too strong to be shoved aside by some cruder impulse, and our nagging fear that our democracy is too fragile to withstand assault by the muscle of fascism... Está contido emTem um comentário sobre o texto
Roth creates a mesmerizing alternate world as well, in which Charles A. Lindbergh defeats FDR in the 1940 presidential election, and Philip, his parents and his brother weather the storm in Newark, N.J. Incorporating Lindbergh's actual radio address in which he accused the British and the Jews of trying to force America into a foreign war, Roth builds an eerily logical narrative that shows how isolationists in and out of government, emboldened by Lindbergh's blatant anti-Semitism (he invites von Rippentrop to the White House, etc.), enact new laws and create an atmosphere of religious hatred that culminates in nationwide pogroms. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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