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Dr. Coleman Silk, a respected university classics professor, is involved in a passionate affair with a cleaning woman who is married to a jealous, violent man. As the affair heats up and the woman's husband becomes more dangerous, a fifty-year-old secret from Coleman's past surfaces, threatening to ruin his entire life. Watch Now.
Books. The Human Stain. Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin, 2000 - Fiction - 361 pages. It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist.
Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a professor who has revitalized Athena, a small New England college. During a class discussion he calls two missing students "spooks". He is accused of making a racist epithet, and quits. His resignation is too much for his wife (Phyllis Newman), who has a heart attack. Convinced his wife was murdered by the ...
The Human Stain may be compared, for example, with Saul Bellow's Ravelstein, both of which, despite their obvious differences in style, make use of many comparable devices including that of the ...
10 de may. de 2000 · "The Human Stain" is brutally painful, profoundly disquieting and intellectually challenging. It is also frustratingly unfocused and excessive in verbiage and length. Ignore the weaknesses of this novel. It is one of the few novels I consider to be absolutely essential to undertand what we have become as a people.
Summary. Apparently inspired by the life and career of Anatole Broyard, the late, well-known literary critic of The New York Times, The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk, a Newark-born ...
23 de dic. de 2010 · The Human Stain. 'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand'- Sunday TelegraphPhilip Roth's brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America - a magnificent successor to American Pastoral and I Married a Communist It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of ...
