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| Original Title: | Indignation |
| ISBN: | 054705484X (ISBN13: 9780547054841) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Marcus Messner |
| Setting: | Newark, New Jersey,1951(United States) New Jersey(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Κρατικό Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης for Μετάφραση Έργου Ξένης Λογοτεχνίας στην Ελληνική Γλώσσα (2010) |
Philip Roth
Hardcover | Pages: 235 pages Rating: 3.73 | 13850 Users | 1432 Reviews
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Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad -- mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father’s fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth’s twenty-ninth book, is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual.
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| Title | : | Indignation |
| Author | : | Philip Roth |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | 1st edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 235 pages |
| Published | : | September 5th 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Literary Fiction. Literature. American |
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Ratings: 3.73 From 13850 Users | 1432 ReviewsCriticism Regarding Books Indignation
This is only my fourth Roth novel (though I do believe American Pastoral to be one of the great American novels of the 20th century) so I don't really know how to place it. If Samuel Beckett took Portnoy's Complaint and distilled it into a seething novella of adolescent angst and disconnection (leavened with a heavy dose of Oedipal conflict) it would probably look something like Roth's latest offering. Why Beckett? Well, his view of the afterlife suggests we are condemned to live, over and over,3.5 starsEven when Philip Roth is not at his best, he's still plenty readable. Indignation is definitely not Roth bringing his A-game chops but, still, quite riveting trying to fathom what's making 1951 college student Marcus Messner so damn indignant. The son of a kosher butcher, Marcus is a Jewish (by birth only) non-believer whose sole raison d'etre seems to be to do well at college at Wineburg, Ohio, so that he can avoid bring drafted into the Korean War as anything less than a lieutenant
Philip Roth tells an interesting story. The book is only 200 pages long, but nevertheless it is very complex, multi-faceted, fluid, tensed and it touches the reader deeply. Philip Roth has created a story where the atmosphere and feelings of this time are perfectly written. An exceptionally good book and it is consequently absolutely recommendable."Denn die Schwäche anderer Menschen kann dich ebenso besiegen wie ihre Stärke, Schwache Leute sind nicht harmlos."S. 153
Philip Roth tells an interesting story. The book is only 200 pages long, but nevertheless it is very complex, multi-faceted, fluid, tensed and it touches the reader deeply. Philip Roth has created a story where the atmosphere and feelings of this time are perfectly written. An exceptionally good book and it is consequently absolutely recommendable."Denn die Schwäche anderer Menschen kann dich ebenso besiegen wie ihre Stärke, Schwache Leute sind nicht harmlos."S. 153
A brilliantly written story, very funny in parts although ultimately it's a pretty grim tale. Marcus Messneer goes off to an American provincial college to escape his domineering father and to plot a course to avoid being drafted to fight on the front line via Korean War draft. Whilst at college he falls in love for the first time and has bitter rows with just about everyone he comes into contact with. He 's doomed from the start and it's no surprise when Marcus meets and untimely end. What
Some of Roth's books work for me, and others just don't. This one really did and was one of my favorite reads of 2013. I was totally absorbed by the story of Marcus Messner. This was a superb portrait of coming of age in the 1950's. I thought Roth's effort was much more successful than books like, A SEPARATE PEACE, CATCHER IN THE RYE, and REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, which are all set in roughly the same time period. I was invested in the story and characters of INDIGNATION much more than I was in the
So far so good. Flows like Roth's Everyman and should be finished with this by the end of the day.
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