"I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five." Philip Roth's new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality...
"I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five." Philip Roth's new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality. Roth's everyman is a hero whose youthful sense of independence and confidence begins to be challenged when illness commences its attack in middle age. A successful commercial advertising artist, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him. He is the brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy. He is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he has made a mess of marriage. Inevitably, he discovers that he has become what he does not want to be. Roth has been hailed as "the most compelling of living writers . . . [His] every book is like a dispatch from the deepest recesses of the national mind."* In Everyman, Roth once again displays his hallmark incisiveness. From his first glimpse of death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through his vigorous, seemingly invincible prime, Roth's hero is a man bewildered not only by his own decline but by the unimaginable deaths of his contemporaries and those he has loved. The terrain of this haunting novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.
Gentle, calm, and somehow soothing. Through description of life (/Death of a Male Body), it conveys a peaceful truth of death. I’m not sure, when I’m near my end, if I would think back on this particu...Gentle, calm, and somehow soothing. Through description of life (/Death of a Male Body), it conveys a peaceful truth of death. I’m not sure, when I’m near my end, if I would think back on this particular fiction and feel comforted. But as for now, for a 24 yo contemplating about death, it has done, in an unexplainable way, great. 很强的文字 thanks(展开)
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0 有用 以启山林 2021-07-19 11:11:11
虽然主人公不能代表everyman, 但至少也是我们能时常遇到的，这样那样此时彼时的everyman. 人生之旅短暂又偶然，有风有雨有寒有暑有山有水有酒有肉有你有我，每个生命都曾经有过依恋另一个生命的时候；每个生命又都不属于另一个生命。跳出来看，那些当下终将成为陈年往事，融入人生尽头的寂寞痛苦和幡然悔悟。
0 有用 ◽Deeeee 2026-06-13 15:12:09 浙江
No “otherness” to be felt anywhere. Once upon a time I was a full human being.
0 有用 Leela 2020-10-24 11:09:54
Gentle, calm, and somehow soothing. Through description of life (/Death of a Male Body), it conveys a peaceful truth of death. I’m not sure, when I’m near my end, if I would think back on this particu... Gentle, calm, and somehow soothing. Through description of life (/Death of a Male Body), it conveys a peaceful truth of death. I’m not sure, when I’m near my end, if I would think back on this particular fiction and feel comforted. But as for now, for a 24 yo contemplating about death, it has done, in an unexplainable way, great. 很强的文字 thanks (展开)
2 有用 红豆b 2019-10-14 01:51:52
越看越像我爸的人生故事 边看边哭 下午看完 晚上我妈打电话说他脑梗了
0 有用 阿斯帕拉戈斯 2023-08-03 21:41:00 贵州
在直面死亡之前，先正视生命。