All about Roth. Gossip and other tasty stories in the biography just published by Einaudi

The profession, the women, the criticisms. Life of a twentieth-century author who didn’t just write his own business

What awaits the brave reader in the 950 pages of the biography of Philip Roth (Einaudi)? Means: net of already known gossip and scandal who dragged a book into the trash. The publisher Norton sent the already printed copies to the shredder, after having commissioned the work and paid advances to the biographer David Bailey, slipped on an ancient harassment suddenly returned to memory. It happens, thank goodness. You forget the crime until one becomes famous.