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What if a look-alike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In his extraordinary new book, his most ingenious and original work since Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth confronts his double, an impostor whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a Moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis to the "real" Philip Roth. Suspenseful, hilarious, hugely impassioned, pulsing with intelligence and narrative energy, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession. This master novelist has never been more demonically brilliant than in the re-creation of his frightening and mysterious journey through the volatile Middle East. Operation Shylock is Philip Roth's twentieth published book - and perhaps his very best.… (más)
Operación Shylock es una novela rigurosamnte autobiográfica basada en hechos rigurosamente falsos. Philip Roth está en su cazsa de Connecticut, recuperándose de una grave crisis mental inducida por el consumo de un fármaco, cuando lo llaman por teléfono desde Israel para decirle que Philip Roth está en Jerusalén haciendo propaganda de la nueva doctrina del Diasporismo, según la cual los judíos de origen europeo deben regresar a Europa, que es su verdadera casa, abandonando Israel. Entre ambos Roth se plantea una descomunal batalla, que ha de terminar con el rotundo triunfo de ninguno de los dos, con ayuda de la OLP y el Mossad. . ( )
What if a look-alike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In his extraordinary new book, his most ingenious and original work since Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth confronts his double, an impostor whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a Moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis to the "real" Philip Roth. Suspenseful, hilarious, hugely impassioned, pulsing with intelligence and narrative energy, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession. This master novelist has never been more demonically brilliant than in the re-creation of his frightening and mysterious journey through the volatile Middle East. Operation Shylock is Philip Roth's twentieth published book - and perhaps his very best.