Redemption: The Life of Henry RothW. W. Norton & Company, 2005 - 371 pagini 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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... Roth's inestimable contribu- tion to American literature , but Redemption is the first book that traces Roth's unique story - from his birth in 1906 in a virtual shtetl in the disintegrating Austro - Hungarian Empire to his phoenix ...
... Roth's inestimable contribu- tion to American literature , but Redemption is the first book that traces Roth's unique story - from his birth in 1906 in a virtual shtetl in the disintegrating Austro - Hungarian Empire to his phoenix ...
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... Roth , whose Call It Sleep he claimed he " tried to read . " When I told Bierce that I intended to write Roth's biography , his response was curt . Like a Sphinx guarding the entrance to the Lawrence Ranch , Bierce challenged me with ...
... Roth , whose Call It Sleep he claimed he " tried to read . " When I told Bierce that I intended to write Roth's biography , his response was curt . Like a Sphinx guarding the entrance to the Lawrence Ranch , Bierce challenged me with ...
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... Roth suffered a legendary writer's block , osten- sibly becoming a textbook demonstration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's remark that American lives lack second acts . In fact , Roth's long life ( 1906-1995 ) offers enough acts to please the ...
... Roth suffered a legendary writer's block , osten- sibly becoming a textbook demonstration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's remark that American lives lack second acts . In fact , Roth's long life ( 1906-1995 ) offers enough acts to please the ...
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... Roth's occupations would have to include not only novelist and waterfowl farmer but also newspaper peddler , messenger , bus conductor , soda pop vendor , plumber's assistant , ditchdigger , English teacher , precision tool grinder ...
... Roth's occupations would have to include not only novelist and waterfowl farmer but also newspaper peddler , messenger , bus conductor , soda pop vendor , plumber's assistant , ditchdigger , English teacher , precision tool grinder ...
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... Roth . Yet I found Roth's dying struggle to make connections inspiring enough to enlist me in the effort . I approach Henry Roth not as a puzzle to be solved but as a mystery to be pondered . A clue to continuity can be found in a letter ...
... Roth . Yet I found Roth's dying struggle to make connections inspiring enough to enlist me in the effort . I approach Henry Roth not as a puzzle to be solved but as a mystery to be pondered . A clue to continuity can be found in a letter ...
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