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What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? 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.--From publisher's description.… (altro)
Avvincente e di altissimo spessore l’ultimo di Roth: romanzo di formazione e quadro spietato degli USA anni 50 (ma attualissimo). A quando il Nobel? ( )
In his famous essay "Writing American Fiction," written back in 1960, Roth spoke about the difficulty of writing credibly about the time we live in. "It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one's meager imagination." As his new book and his many other novels show, it can be done by a master.
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Ungefähr zweieinhalb Monate nachdem die gutausgebildeten, von den Sowjets und den chinesischen Kommunisten mit Waffen ausgerüsteten Divisionen Nordkoreas am 25. Juni 1950 über den 38. Breitengrad vorgedrungen waren und mit dem Einmarsch in Südkorea das große Leid des Koreakriegs begonnen hatte, kam ich auf Robert Treat, ein kleines College in Newark, benannt nach dem Mann, der die Stadt im siebzehnten Jahrhundert gegründet hatte.
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Inderdaad ja, het goeie ouwe uitdagende 'sodemieter op', en daarmee was het uit voor de slagerszoon, drie maanden voor zijn twintigste verjaardag dood - Marcus Messner, 1932-1952, de enige van zijn jaargenoten die het ongeluk had te sneuvelen in de Koreaanse oorlog, waaraan op 27 juli 1953 een eind kwam met de ondertekening van een wapenstilstand, elf maanden voordat Marcus, zo hij in staat was geweest de kerk te slikken en zijn kop te houden, zijn studie aan Winesburg College zou hebben voltooid - met aan zekerheid grenzende waarschijnlijheid als beste van zijn jaar - en dus voorlopig nog niet te weten had hoeven komen wat zijn onontwikkelde vader hem al die tijd met zoveel moeite had proberen bij te brengen: via welke verschirikkelijke, onbegrijpelijke wegen iemands meest alledaagse, onbeduidende, zelfs komische keuzes tot het meest buitenproportionele resultaat leiden.
What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? 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.--From publisher's description.
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