The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America par Philip Roth est un grand roman. En partant de personnages historiques réels de l'époque de la deuxième guerre mondiale, il tapote légèrement le cours de l'Histoire pour lui faire prendre une légère tangente. Il nous raconte la vie de sa famille sous une Histoire qui aurait pu se produire si les États-Unis avaient choisi le camp des fachistes au tournant des années '40. C'est vachement fascinant ce faschissement.

Je vous cite la fin de cette critique lue dans le Guardian:

Young Philip's greatest epiphany is to recognise the difference between history as taught in school - harmless and inevitable - and history as it's lived through, "the relentless unforeseen". His novel is a different kind of history again, an imagined past which, if we learn from it, might save us from a calamitous future. It's not Roth's funniest novel (and there's hardly any sex). But in its sweep and chutzpah, it ranks with his great trilogy of the late-90s. Isn't it time they gave him the Nobel?