The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed; and on baseball, American fiction, and American Jews. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master, Reading Myself and Others features his long interview with the Paris Review.
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"An illuminating...glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction.... Reveals a first-rate mind." —Chicago Daily News
"Roth [is] fearless in his own defense and in defense of literature." —Michael Mewshaw, Texas Monthly
"Excellent.... Roth's sensitivity to the balance of situations in his own fiction is Jamesian in its subtlety, and indeed in its nature this book is closer to James's prefaces than to any other book...consistently thoughtful and thoroughly engaging." —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post
"Roth [is] fearless in his own defense and in defense of literature." —Michael Mewshaw, Texas Monthly
"Excellent.... Roth's sensitivity to the balance of situations in his own fiction is Jamesian in its subtlety, and indeed in its nature this book is closer to James's prefaces than to any other book...consistently thoughtful and thoroughly engaging." —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post
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?An illuminating?glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction?. Reveals a first-rate mind.??Chicago Daily News
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Please, Mr. Roth, Update This Collection
July 5 2000
By R. W. Rasband
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Not only is Philip Roth perhaps America's greatest living novelist, he is one of the nation's very best literary critics as well. This book is a compilation of essays and interviews he published before 1974. Included is his piercing analyses of the accusations of anti-Semitism made against him as well as "Writing American Fiction", the classic essay where he declares that the novelist's imagination can't possibly keep up with the extravagance of American reality. Also included is the short story/essay "Looking at Kafka" which may be the best thing ever written about that quintessential modernist author. Roth has written enough criticism in the years since this book was published to assemble a whole new volume: please, we badly need an update!
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He will make you laugh and he may make you cry
Jan 18 2005
By Shalom Freedman
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Interviews, articles , essays. An essay on Kafka which turns into a moving fiction on what would have happened to Kafka had he come as a war refugee to Roth's New Jersey. Writing about the East-European authors he has championed, about the claim of the Jewish community that his writing has not served it very well, about the novel, and the American reality which in its extravagance seems to produce more than any fiction can do, an essay on The Newark Public Library one on Cambodia, on 'TheBaseball Years' on his protege Alan Lelchuk, reflections on his own books, Portnoy, the Breast, the Great American novel, Life as a Man.
A rich collection by the funniest and certainly one of the best American writers of the last half- century.
A rich collection by the funniest and certainly one of the best American writers of the last half- century.
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