The humbling

by Philip Roth | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780099549376 Global Overview for this book
Registered by apapsa of Athens - Αθήνα, Attica Greece on 5/1/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by apapsa from Athens - Αθήνα, Attica Greece on Thursday, May 1, 2014
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth s startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into thin air." When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else. "Something fundamental has vanished." His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can t persuade him to make a comeback.

Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for a bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking end. In this long day s journey into night, told with Roth s inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity, all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life s performances talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation are stripped off.

Released 9 yrs ago (5/1/2014 UTC) at Αρχαία Αγορά - Ancient Agora in Athens - Αθήνα, Attica Greece

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I left the book around 12:30 on a bench at the road that leads to the Ancient Agora (from the entrance opposite to the open air cinema "Thission" in Apostolou Pavlou str).

Happy reading to whoever finds it.

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