Synopsis
Edition originale, 1961. Par l'auteur de ##Portnoy et son complexe##. Des personnages qui se détournent de ce qu'ils désirent, dans l'espoir d'exercer un contrôle rigoureux sur leur vie. Un premier roman qui traite de compromis et de frustrations, qui dépeint la communauté juive américaine cultivée des années 1950. Pour plusieurs critiques américains, ##Laisser courir## est à classer parmi les mauvais livres que seuls les bons écrivains peuvent écrire. A noter l'influence d'Henry James. Solide préface de James Atlas qui considère que l'oeuvre, sur le plan littéraire, est une des plus achevées de Roth.
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About Philip Roth
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Philip Roth
1933–2018
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) 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 Jewish and 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 Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history *The Plot Against America.*
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