Redemption: The Life of Henry RothW. W. Norton & Company, 2005 - 371 σελίδες Henry Roth (1906-1995), author of the great immigrant novel Call It Sleep, is one of the giants of American literature, yet for years he has lacked a biography. After completing his first book in 1934, Roth lapsed into a legendary six-decade silence, only to reemerge with Mercy of a Rude Stream, hailed as "a landmark of the American literary century" (David Mehegan, Boston Globe) and "as provocative as anything in the chapters of St. Augustine" (Stefan Kanfer, Los Angeles Times Book Review). In following Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files, spoken with family members and friends, and gained access to the tape in which Roth discussed the long-buried incest of his youth. Redemption is the Shakespearean saga of a great writer doomed to a life of psychological torment, but saved in the end by his search for deliverance. |
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Σελίδα 6
... final books - A Diving Rock on the Hudson , From Bondage , and Requiem for Harlem - attempt to distance the author from his fiction ; but Roth might more plausibly have echoed Gabriel García Márquez's insistence about his own improbably ...
... final books - A Diving Rock on the Hudson , From Bondage , and Requiem for Harlem - attempt to distance the author from his fiction ; but Roth might more plausibly have echoed Gabriel García Márquez's insistence about his own improbably ...
Σελίδα 8
... final fierce creative sprint . He became the prover- bial Rip Van Winkle of modern authors . This myth of Roth as American literature's spurned prodigy , whose debut was dazzling and departure luminous but whose center was a black hole ...
... final fierce creative sprint . He became the prover- bial Rip Van Winkle of modern authors . This myth of Roth as American literature's spurned prodigy , whose debut was dazzling and departure luminous but whose center was a black hole ...
Σελίδα 9
... final quest for regeneration . Yet an effective biography must also pay attention to the shifting landscape of American literary culture throughout the twentieth cen- tury . Born in Tysmenitz , Galicia ( a historically contested region ...
... final quest for regeneration . Yet an effective biography must also pay attention to the shifting landscape of American literary culture throughout the twentieth cen- tury . Born in Tysmenitz , Galicia ( a historically contested region ...
Σελίδα 10
... final , courageous , redemp- tive effort to complete the cycle conceived under the collective title Mercy of a Rude Stream . A quest for redemption is the fable that denies the discontinuities of a life afflicted by chronic depression ...
... final , courageous , redemp- tive effort to complete the cycle conceived under the collective title Mercy of a Rude Stream . A quest for redemption is the fable that denies the discontinuities of a life afflicted by chronic depression ...
Σελίδα 11
... final , excruciating effort at expression gave life to his self - loathing , even as it put to rest an old man's mortal pain . I ACCEDED TO the proposal by Robert Weil and Roslyn Targ , and Roth's editor became my editor , his agent my ...
... final , excruciating effort at expression gave life to his self - loathing , even as it put to rest an old man's mortal pain . I ACCEDED TO the proposal by Robert Weil and Roslyn Targ , and Roth's editor became my editor , his agent my ...
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