David Simon adapts Philip Roth and scratches Trump’s America

By faithfully adapting “The Plot against America”, the uchronic novel by Philip Roth, the creator of “The Wire” signs an intimate drama traversed by a keen eye on History and politics… To be discovered on OCS City Tuesday 17th March.

David Simon, the most committed of the great showrunners Americans, is a former journalist. Its series, whether adapted from tests (The Corner, The Wire, Generation Kill) or directly inspired by the more or less recent history of the United States (Treme, The Deuce), are always true to the facts. The screenwriter systematically relies on scrupulous research to extract political and dramatic fictional material from reality. Astonishing, therefore, to see him attacking pure fiction, The Plot Against America, uchronic novel by Philip Roth, published in 2004. The Plot Against America (the original title of the book, kept for the series, editor’s note) begins in June 1940, in Newark, a suburb of New York. While the war rages in Europe, the Republican primaries lead to the candidacy of Charles Lindbergh, national hero and Nazi sympathizer with the lapidary slogan: “Lindbergh or the war”. When the aviator defeats Roosevelt and enters the White House, the daily life of the Levins, a middle-class Jewish family (and fictionalized version of that of Roth, editor’s note) is upset …

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