Operación Shylock

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Es una novela rigurosamente autobiográfica basado en hechos rigurosamente falsos. Philip Roth está en su casa de Connecticut, recuperándose de una grave crisis mental inducida por el consumo de un fármaco, cuando lo llaman por teléfono desde Israel para decirle que Philip Roth está en Jerusalén haciendo propaganda de la nueva doctrina del diasporismo, según la cual los judíos de origen europeo deben regresar a Europa, que es su verdadera casa, abandonando Israel. Entre Philip Roth y Philip Roth se plantea una descomunal batalla, que ha de terminar con el rotundo triunfo de ninguno de los dos, con la ayuda de la OLP y del Mossad. Al final, la "Operación Shylock" se nos cuenta en el capítulo 11, que no está en este libro, y el enredo se aclara en el Epílogo, que contienen una carta imaginada y una larga conversación que no pudo ocurrir. O sí.

Operación Shylock es seguramente una de las mejores novelas que se han escrito en los últimos años. Suponiendo que sea una novela, claro está. También podría ser un reportaje verídico. O una alucinación. O el discurso de ingreso de Philip Roth en la Academia Internacional de Grandes Embaucadores. De una cosa no cabe duda: es una obra maestra.

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Genres fictionjewishnovelsliteratureamericanliterary fictioncontemporarythe united states of americaisrael20th century

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1993

Literary awards

pulitzer prize, pen/faulkner award for fiction,

This edition

Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Published: September 1, 2005 by Debolsillo
ISBN: 9788497937559
ASIN: 8497937554
Language: Spanish; Castilian

About the author

philip roth

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.