In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish
writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to
Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation
straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary
predicament, marked by institutionalised oppression, that is rather
different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed
writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of
bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of
heroism. The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from Zuckerman's
notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists,
completes the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound. It provides a
startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the
unforeseen consequences of art.In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer
Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal
of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 the highest award of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction,
previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul
Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and
the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner
Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the
Society of American Historians’ Prize for ‘the outstanding
historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004’.Recently Roth
received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov
Award ‘for a body of work . . . of enduring originality and
consummate craftsmanship’ and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for
Achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose ‘scale of
achievement over a sustained career . . . places him or her in the
highest rank of American literature’. In 2011 Roth won the
International Man Booker Prize.Roth is the only living American
writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive
edition by the Library of America.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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