Philip Roth (Routledge Revivals)

Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Philip Roth (Routledge Revivals)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 April 2011
Pages
104
ISBN
9780415567992

Philip Roth (Routledge Revivals)

Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford)

On its original publication in 1982 this book was the first full-length study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. As well as setting the novelist’s work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, the book explores the characteristic paradoxes in Roth: self-disgust and self-consciousness, restraint and letting go, nausea and appetite, energy and frustration, stylishness and vulgarity, surrealism and the mundane. Roth is a highly literary and referential character and an assessment is made of the conflicting influnces on his work of Kafka, Chekov, Gogol, Henry James, Melville and Henry Youngman, a Jewish nightclub and Vaudeville comic. In addition a close examination of his anxious, revolting, garrulous heroes, their mothers, their marriages, their shrinks, and their shiksas is undertaken and a deep seriousness is discovered, co-existing with Roth’s comic brashness and bravura.

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