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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... story of Henry Roth , whose first work , Call It Sleep , is regarded as the finest novel of the American immigrant experi- ence . Much has been written about Roth's inestimable contribu- tion to American literature , but Redemption is ...
... story of Henry Roth , whose first work , Call It Sleep , is regarded as the finest novel of the American immigrant experi- ence . Much has been written about Roth's inestimable contribu- tion to American literature , but Redemption is ...
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... story of a Galician Jewish transplant who in 1964 , at age fifty- eight , suddenly became famous for being unknown . Thirty years after its publication , Call It Sleep was rediscovered as the classic of immi- gration fiction , a ...
... story of a Galician Jewish transplant who in 1964 , at age fifty- eight , suddenly became famous for being unknown . Thirty years after its publication , Call It Sleep was rediscovered as the classic of immi- gration fiction , a ...
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... continuing conversation . I had initially read Call It Sleep - avidly , compulsively - in 1964 , in the new Avon round - cornered paperback with the photo of a tene- ment that bleeds off the cover . The story seemed INTRODUCTION 7.
... continuing conversation . I had initially read Call It Sleep - avidly , compulsively - in 1964 , in the new Avon round - cornered paperback with the photo of a tene- ment that bleeds off the cover . The story seemed INTRODUCTION 7.
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... story seemed written in my blood , which also flows from Eastern Europe . It was the start of winter break , and ... stories in The New Yorker , during the " silent " years . He was a far more complicated — and interesting— figure than ...
... story seemed written in my blood , which also flows from Eastern Europe . It was the start of winter break , and ... stories in The New Yorker , during the " silent " years . He was a far more complicated — and interesting— figure than ...
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... story of Ira in his teens and twenties , bifurcating narrator and protagonist - was to find a fig- ure in the tattered carpet that covers the dust of almost nine decades . Of course , the prospect of finding subtle continuity amid the ...
... story of Ira in his teens and twenties , bifurcating narrator and protagonist - was to find a fig- ure in the tattered carpet that covers the dust of almost nine decades . Of course , the prospect of finding subtle continuity amid the ...
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