Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of ImmaturityPrinceton University Press, 2008 M07 28 - 328 páginas Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in the notoriously immature Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Three-and-a-half decades and more than twenty books later, Roth is still at his serious "pursuit of the unserious." But his art of immaturity has itself matured, developing surprising links with two traditions of immaturity--an American one that includes Emerson, Melville, and Henry James, and a late twentieth-century Eastern European one that developed in reaction to totalitarianism. In Philip Roth's Rude Truth--one of the first major studies of Roth's career as a whole--Ross Posnock examines Roth's "mature immaturity" in all its depth and richness. |
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... Kundera adumbrates a number of the elements that " immaturity " will summon in this book . Without mentioning his friend Philip Roth , Kundera returns us to the origins of the modern novel in Europe as one useful , if unfamiliar ...
... Kundera a less than reverential attitude to the nineteenth-century elevation of realism into the prime responsi- bility of the serious novelist. Yet Nabokov and Roth also exhibit a genius for realist verisimilitude founded on a nearly ...
... Kundera is one of Roth's chief interlocu- tors in this book, one of the figures whom I set in conversation with a novelist whose cosmopolitanism has for too long been hidden under the familiar rubric of Jewish American. Early on ...
... Kundera, Václav Havel, Witold Gom- browicz, and Bruno Schulz—are powerful theorists of immaturity. They fashion it, each in their own way, as a stance against the coerced conformity of totalitarian oppression. Immaturity, then, is ...
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Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity Ross Posnock,Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock Vista previa limitada - 2006 |