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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... Roth calls “the rhapsody” (HS 52). Roth's notion of rhapsody is entwined with the grossly corporeal and visceral, thus true to the root meaning of aesthetic. While Roth's version may not be as elegant as Nabokov's, both novelists ...
... Roth 269 ) . Bellow was speaking ( on a television documentary ) of Roth's most vertiginous novel - Operation Shylock — but his remark applies more broadly — to the provocations of “ counterlife " that Roth imprints on his late work ...
... Roth's sense of his own status might be glimpsed in The Anatomy Les- son ( 1983 ) , refracted through Nathan Zuckerman . In the midst of a nervous breakdown in Chicago , he receives a letter from the University of Chicago student paper ...
... Roth's career trajectory and his presence in the culture would not follow Bellow's— the literary titan turned embattled curmudgeon . Rather than this fa- miliar script , Roth's would be a career busy inventing new ones . For here is a ...
... Roth has always been on the cultural right” (94). I concur, but with these caveats: from our present vantage, Roth's lasting power tells us something new—that the postmodernist commitment, at least in its more programmatic versions, has ...
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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 |