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Title: One Like Everyone

Author: Philip Roth

Translator: Peyman Khaksar

Publisher: Cheshmeh

Subject: American story

Age category: Adult

Cover: Paperback

Number of pages: 138 p

Language Farsi

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Every Man, originally titled Every Man, was first published in 2006. In the 15th century, a play of the same name was made in England, the main character of which is summoned by death and must live on earth before appearing before God. Give back the account.

Book One Like Everyone
“This is where people listen to each other’s moaning

Where they tremble with trembling, sad, with a few strands of gray hair

Where youth withers and dies and illusions are blown away

“Where thinking makes existence sad.”

These sentences are part of a series of essays by John Keats, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English poet. Philip Roth started the book One Like Everyone with these sentences

The winner of the Man Booker Prize 2011 has written a readable book in which he depicts the issue of old age in an interesting and special way. The author’s unique point of view makes this book so readable and engaging that if you hold it in your hand, you will not leave it until the end.

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About the book One Like All by Philip Roth
In an interview in 2005, Philip Roth said: “The old version of One Like Everyone was written in 1485 by anonymous authors. It’s time to write between Chaucer’s death and Shakespeare’s birth. , He thinks he’s a messenger but death tells him: I’m death, the answer of one like everyone else in the first line of this great English drama is:

“Oh death, you came when I remembered you less than ever.” The main character in Roth’s story also struggles with death due to old age.
The book won the 2007 Penn / Faulkner Prize in Fiction. The audio version of Book One, like everyone else, was released shortly after the print version of the book was released in the United States.

Synopsis One like all
One, like everyone else, begins with the funeral of the first character of the story, in which all his friends and family members are present and mourn for him. In the continuation of the book, there are returns to different periods of his life. The book goes back to the first character’s childhood, where he and his older brother worked in a jewelry store, talks about the three marriages he has had in his lifetime, and the careers he has experienced over the years. This book reflects on his decisions and mistakes in the following years

The anonymous man in the story, although not Philip Roth, has much in common with him; Born in 1933, he was born in New Jersey and grew up there, sharing the author with a number of other issues, including his medical history.

In part of the book, we read one like everyone else
He asked his nephew, “Are Westerners going to Tibet?”

“Of course they were walking,” Rob said. They will be back in three weeks. If you have a message for them, I can tell them

I want. “I do the same thing every time someone calls.”

“No, it is not necessary. “How are you, brothers?”

“They are all fine. “How are you?”

“I’m getting better,” he said. And hung up the phone.
Well, he was divorced three times. A serial husband who was more famous for his ignorance and sin than for his loyalty. Now he had to go through everything alone. From the age of twenty-two, when he was very self-confident, to the age of about fifty, he had attracted the attention of all the women he wanted. This process has never stopped since entering the art school.

Fate seemed to have destined nothing more for him. But then something unforeseen happened: he had been living for about three quarters of a century, and now that fruitful and active life was gone. She no longer had the charm of a productive man, nor was she able to arouse masculine pleasures. He did not make much effort to arouse enthusiasm. For a while he thought to himself that perhaps the element that had been removed would return and restore his sanctity and affirm his superiority.
He thought that the position he had been mistaken for would return to him and that he could resume life from where he had left it a few years ago. But now it was revealed to him that, like every other year, he was going through a process of diminishing and diminishing, and that he had to sit and watch his aimless days to the end – aimless days and shaky nights and coping with bodily disability. Sadness of the last days and waiting and waiting for nothing. He thought to himself, this is the end of it. This is something you could not even imagine.

The man who was swimming the whole beach with Nancy’s mother had reached a place he could not even dream of. Now was the time to fear oblivion, the distant future had arrived.

About Philip Roth
Philip Roth is one of the most prominent writers of the second half of the twentieth century in America. He was born in 1933 in New Jersey. His ancestors were European Jews, and his family immigrated to the United States during nineteenth-century immigration. He grew up in New Jersey and chose Bucknell University for his university studies, then went on to study at the University of Chicago. He later taught literature at the same university and sometimes taught courses such as comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Philip Roth has been a member of the American National Institute of Arts and Letters since 1975 and has worked as an editor for many years. He retired in 1992 and quit teaching. From then until the end of his life in 2018, Philip Roth devoted his life to writing.
The first book by Philip Roth to say goodbye to Columbus and 5 short stories, he wrote the novel in 1959 and won the American National Book Award for it. Most of his works are full of social themes, and many of them are related to the Jewish community. Among the translated works of Philip Roth in Iran are the books “Our President”, “Human Rust”, “Anger”, “Human Shame”, “Humiliation”, “Lord of Revenge”, “Behind the Scenes Writer” and “My Communist Wife” Cited.

Philip Roth has won numerous awards over the years in his career, including the 1991 National Critics Award.

He mentioned the 1995 American National Book Award, the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, the 2001 Franz Kafka Prize, and the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Literature.

Translation of the book One Like Everyone into Persian
One like everyone has been translated into Persian by Peyman Khaksar, and Cheshmeh Publications in 1989 has sent it to the Iranian book market. Peyman Khaksar explains in the introduction of the book about the translation of the title of the book “every man”. Peyman Khaksar has dedicated his translation of One Like Everyone to Bahman Kiarostami.

Why read this book?
This book expresses a painful fact in a special and interesting language. The bitter truth that exists in the lives of all of us and many of us have closed our eyes to it. The fact that human life is limited and its possibilities are not endless. The fact is that aging, decay, and finally death await every human being, and human beings have limited time in their lives for their desires and wishes, when they suddenly see that it is over. Reading this book can make the reader think and appreciate his moments, moments that are sometimes wasted in sheer vanity. Philip Roth frankly confronts us with the fact that one day we will miss the minutes we have lost in our years of empowerment.

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