Le complot contre l'Amérique

557 pages

French language

Published Nov. 1, 2007 by Folio.

ISBN:
978-2-07-033790-3
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When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking office as the thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty.

What then followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prize–winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family — and for a million such families all over the country — during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the …

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Review of 'The Plot Against America' on 'Goodreads'

 There are nearly 7.7 billion people in the world and of them just about 14.5 million are Jewish, a number lower than before the Holocaust. Despite making up less than 0.2 percent of the world, Jews have had an enormous impact on the sciences, academia, and the arts. I'm not Jewish and even though I live in a part of the U.S. with a fairly high Jewish population I don't know a large number of Jews. Nonetheless, many of my favorite writers are Jewish (Isaac Asimov, Saul Bellow, Harold Brodkey, E.L. Doctorow, Joseph Heller, Christopher Hitchens, Erica Jong, Jerzy Kosinski, Fran Lebowitz, Norman Mailer, Henry Roth, J.D. Salinger, James Salter, Susan Sontag) and when they write about Jewish concerns I'm as engaged as if they were writing about me or people in my neighborhood, Jewish or not.
 Philip Roth (1933–2018) has always been at the top of my list of …

Review of 'La Conjura Contra America / The Plot Against America' on 'Goodreads'

The Plot Against America, traduit en français sous le titre Le complot contre l'Amérique, est un livre mémorable, un très grand roman de Philip Roth publié en 2004

Ce roman se présente comme le récit autobiographique d’un jeune garçon juif dans l’Amérique du début des années 1940. Le récit diverge de l’Histoire quand Charles Linbergh, isolationniste et antisémite notoire, remporte la nomination du Parti Républicain et défait à la surprise générale le président sortant Roosevelt lors l’élection présidentielle de 1940.

Charles Lindbergh jouit d'une double aura : c'est un héros encore jeune de l’aviation américaine, et le kidnapping et la mort tragique de son fils, alors âgé de moins de deux ans, dans une affaire qui avait passionné et choqué l’opinion publique en 1932 a fait de lui un père-martyr. Il semble ainsi le candidat républicain idéal pour empêcher Roosevelt, affaibli par la maladie et déjà aux commandes du …

Review of 'La Conjura Contra America / The Plot Against America' on 'Goodreads'

Speculatieve fictie heeft een speciaal plekje in mijn hart. Bijwijlen wordt er nog weleens lacherig over gedaan, het zou geen "echte" literatuur zijn – wat dat ook mag betekenen. Is niet alle literatuur in zekere mate speculatief? Afijn, wat ik wel weet is dat speculatieve fictie – goede speculatieve fictie – m'n verbeelding prikkelt op ronduit innovatieve manieren. Wat ik ook weet: Philip Roth was er een meester in.

In 2004 verscheen Roths The Plot Against America, een roman die een alternatief verleden verhaalt, eentje waar Amerika in 1940 een andere afslag in de geschiedenis nam met de verkiezing van luchtvaartheld (en rabiate isolationist) Charles A. Lindbergh tot president, ten koste van een tweede termijn van Franklin D. Roosevelt. Antisemitisme tiert welig onder Lindbergh. De grootste angst van joodse families in Amerika lijkt een stap dichterbij nadat Lindbergh een niet-aanvalsverdrag sluit met het regime van Adolf Hitler. We volgen …

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