Indignation

Nous sommes en 1951, seconde année de la guerre de Corée. Marcus Messner, a young man of sixteen years, intense and serene, of Jewish origin, pursues his studies at Winesburg College, in the middle of Ohio. He left the school in Newark, New Jersey, where his family lives. Il espère par ce changement échapper à la domination de son père, boucher de sa profession, un homme honnête et travailleur, mais qui est depelque temps la proie d'une véritable paranoïa au sujet de son fils bien-aimé. Fear and love are the sources of this panic. Marcus, unaware of his parents, is about to take his chances in an America that is still unknown to him, full of embolisms, difficulties and surprises. Indignation, Philip Roth's fourth novel, proposes a form of apprentissage: it is a story of trials and tribulations, of audacity and torture, of resistances and révélations, both sexual and intellectual. Renonçant à sa description minutieuse de la vieillesse et de son cortège de maux, Roth continues avec l'énergie habituelle son analyse de l'histoire de l'Amérique - that of the nineteen-twenties, of taboos and sexual frustrations - and of its impact on the life of a young, isolated and vulnerable man.