Humiliation

Awesome story about a popular theater actor who lost his magic gift and met his last love. Sincere and darling the soul about the tragedy of aging of a gifted person, about professional burnout, about despair, loneliness and betrayal, about human hypocrisy and tired. The last love of the actor, the lesbian of the Ponda, in his hands turns into a nymphomanka and a heterosexual feminine beauty, but ruthlessly throws the hero. Even the most courageous and detached sexual adventures, so carefully discharged by the author, can not replace his hero profession, and the pondean feels.
Final Philip Roth sends us to Chekhov"s "Seagull". The last role of the main character is the role of Konstantin Gavrilovich, he misses the opportunity to make a truly bold act and save his heart to his heart absolutely consciously. Why? The answer is in the book