Indignation. Empörung, englische Ausgabe

Marcus Messner begins his sophomore year at Winesburg College. He is happy to finally leave his family, his father, a butcher, and his mother, always afraid. The college is quite conservative and from the start Marcus has problems adapting. For him, as a Jew, life is especially difficult. First, rather unsatisfying experiences with girls, the strict rules of the college and the Korean War looming – Marcus feels his life has already ended before it really began.

Philip Roth’s way of...

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