El teatro de Sabbath

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El teatro de Sabbath es una creación cómica de proporciones épicas en la que Mickey Sabbath, eterno adolescente casi al borde de la jubilación, es un héroe digno de Rabelais. Este ex titiritero imaginativo y genial se ha convertido en un personaje permanentemente indignado con el mundo a causa del lugar que ocupa en él y escandalosamente libidinoso. Muy libidinoso: le gustaría ser el marqués de Sade, pero, definitivamente, no lo es. Tras la muerte de su amante de toda la vida un «espíritu libre» cuya fidelidad al adulterio único ha sorprendido incluso al propio Sabbath, nuestro héroe decide hacer balance y se embarca en un turbulento viaje hacia su pasado. Acongojado y perseguido por los fantasmas de todos aquellos que más le amaron y odiaron, sus intentos de escapar a este cerco terminan en una sucesión de desastres absurdos que casi consiguen volverle loco y acabar con su vida

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504 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1,1995

About the author

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Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation. He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 2005, the Library of America began publishing his complete works, making him the second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty. Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along with Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in Prague.

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