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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... 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- like emergence as a literary ...
... 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- like emergence as a literary ...
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... tion but also as a creature of the social aspirations and disappoint- ments of the 1930s . Its wildly fluctuating reception offers a case study in the fickle mechanism of literary reputations , in the eclipse of cul- tural leftism , and ...
... tion but also as a creature of the social aspirations and disappoint- ments of the 1930s . Its wildly fluctuating reception offers a case study in the fickle mechanism of literary reputations , in the eclipse of cul- tural leftism , and ...
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... tion . It was the first installment in Roth's final , courageous , redemp- tive effort to complete the cycle conceived under the collective title Mercy of a Rude Stream . A quest for redemption is the fable that denies the ...
... tion . It was the first installment in Roth's final , courageous , redemp- tive effort to complete the cycle conceived under the collective title Mercy of a Rude Stream . A quest for redemption is the fable that denies the ...
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... tion maintained the tradition , if not the standards , of biographical scholarship . Responding to requests under the Freedom of Informa- tion Act , the FBI , which kept Roth under sporadic surveillance for two decades , provided me ...
... tion maintained the tradition , if not the standards , of biographical scholarship . Responding to requests under the Freedom of Informa- tion Act , the FBI , which kept Roth under sporadic surveillance for two decades , provided me ...
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