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Laisser courir

Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. The anarchy caused by the Herzes' struggle with responsible adulthood and his own eager love affairs vicariously tests Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered 'world of feeling' that he finds in books.--from publisher's description.

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  • "Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. The anarchy caused by the Herzes' struggle with responsible adulthood and his own eager love affairs vicariously tests Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered 'world of feeling' that he finds in books.--from publisher's description."@en
  • "Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. The anarchy caused by the Herzes' struggle with responsible adulthood and his own eager love affairs vicariously tests Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered 'world of feeling' that he finds in books.--from publisher's description."
  • "Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today.Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes' struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously, Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable woman who, according to critic James Atlas, is masterfully portrayed with "depth and resonance."The complex liason between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this tragically comic work.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "Edition originale, 1961. Par l'auteur de ##Portnoy et son complexe##. Des personnages qui se détournent de ce qu'ils désirent, dans l'espoir d'exercer un contrôle rigoureux sur leur vie. Un premier roman qui traite de compromis et de frustrations, qui dépeint la communauté juive américaine cultivée des années 1950. Pour plusieurs critiques américains, ##Laisser courir## est à classer parmi les mauvais livres que seuls les bons écrivains peuvent écrire. A noter l'influence d'Henry James. Solide préface de James Atlas qui considère que l'oeuvre, sur le plan littéraire, est une des plus achevées de Roth."
  • "Machteloosheid om het eigen leven een bepaalde richting te geven, beheerst vrijwel alle personen die in deze roman een rol spelen. Zij maken zichzelf en degenen die hun het meest lief zijn steeds ongelukkiger en ongewild brengen zij elkaar zulke ernstige wonden toe dat vrijwel alle relaties er aan kapot gaan."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Jewish fiction"@en
  • "Jewish fiction"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"

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  • "Niños y hombres"@es
  • "Niños y hombres"
  • "Laisser courir"
  • "Laisser courir"@en
  • "Niño y hombres"@es
  • "Laat maar gaan"
  • "Letting go. [Novel]"
  • "Deudas y dolores"@es
  • "Deudas y dolores"
  • "Letting go"@en
  • "Letting go"
  • "Letting Go"
  • "Letting go : [novel]"

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