No extremo da vida (nêmesis): o homem comum, o patrimônio e a humilhação

Abstract

Philip Roth is a caustic author, celebrated for his courage to fictionalize arid and difficult subjects, often from autobiographical records. Old age, sickness and death have been his frequent companion in his later novels. In this essay we will comment very briefly on three of his works that deal with these issues: The Humbling, Everyman and Patrimony. Our reflection evokes, as a counterpoint to the analysis, the book of Job in the Bible; On Old Age, Cicero, The Loneliness of the Dying, followed by Aging and Dying, Norbert Elias, and Living up to Death, followed by Fragments, by Paul Ricoeur.