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An edition of The Plot Against America (2004)

Verschwörung gegen Amerika

printing (1)
  • 3.76 ·
  • 25 Ratings
  • 213 Want to read
  • 14 Currently reading
  • 36 Have read

Was wäre gewesen, wenn ?

Der neue Roman von Philip Roth be- ginnt mit einem kühnen Einfall: Charles Lindbergh, der berühmte Fliegerheld, Faschistenfreund und Antisemit, ver- bucht bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen im Jahr 1940 einen erdrutschartigen Sieg über Franklin D. Roosevelt. Der Mann, der von Hitler mit einem Orden geehrt wurde, schließt einen Nichtangriffspakt mit Nazi-Deutschland, es kommt zu ersten antisemitischen Ausschreitungen, und unter den amerikanischen Juden breiten sich Furcht und Schrecken aus. In der Summit Avenue in Newark hat ein siebenjähriger Philip Roth Alpträume, bangt um seine Briefmarkensammlung und erlebt zum erstenmal die Ohnmacht seines geliebten Vaters gegenüber der Bedrohung. Die einst so einige und glück- liche Familie ist größten Belastungen ausgesetzt. Philips großer Bruder kommt völlig verwandelt als Lindbergh-Anhän- ger von seinen — von der Regierung verordneten — Sommerferien bei einer christlichen Farmerfamilie zurück. Der Vetter Alvin geht nach Kanada, um gegen die Deutschen zu kämpfen, und wird zum verbitterten Invaliden. Tante Evelyn heiratet den berühmt-berüchtigten Rabbi Bengelsdorf, der mit der neuen Regierung paktiert. Und am furchtbarsten trifft es die Nachbarn, den kleinen Seldon und seine Mutter, und Philip ist daran nicht unschuldig. 1997 erhielt Philip Roth für Amerikanisches Idyll den Pulitzer-preis. 1998 wurde ihm im Weißen Haus die National Medal of Arts verliehen, und 2c)02 erhielt er die höchste Ausrichnung der American Academy of Arts and Letters, die Gold Medal, mit der unter anderem John Dos Passos, William Faulkner und Saul Bellow ausgezeichnet worden sind. Er hat zwei- mal den National Book Award erhalten, außerdem den PEN/Faulkner Award und den National Book Critics Circle Award.

2005 wird Philip Roth der dritte lebende Amerikaner werden, dessen Werk in einer umfassenden, maßgeblichen Gesamtaus- gabe von der Library of America heraus- gegeben wird. Der letzte der acht Bände soll 2013 erscheinen.
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Carl Hanser Verlag
Language
German
Pages
430

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München

First Sentence

"Angst beherrscht diese Erinnerungen, eine ständige Angst."

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2004
Translation Of
The Plot Against America
Translated From
English

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810

Contributors

Translator
Werner Schmitz

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
431 Seiten
Number of pages
430

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28318941M
Internet Archive
verschworunggege0000roth
ISBN 10
3446206620
ISBN 13
9783446206625
OCLC/WorldCat
163629352
Amazon ID (ASIN)
3446206620
Goodreads
55823477

Work Description

The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes more accepted in American life and Jewish-American families like the Roths are persecuted on various levels. The narrator and central character in the novel is the young Philip, and the care with which his confusion and terror are rendered makes the novel as much about the mysteries of growing up as about American politics. Roth based his novel on the isolationist ideas espoused by Lindbergh in real life as a spokesman for the America First Committee, and on his own experiences growing up in Newark, New Jersey. The novel received praise for the realism of its world and its treatment of topics such as antisemitism, trauma, and the perception of history. The novel depicts the Weequahic section of Newark which includes Weequahic High School from which Roth graduated.

In 2005, the novel won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction given by the Society of American Historians. It won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and came in 11th for the 2005 Locus Awards.

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Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.
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