Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of ImmaturityPrinceton University Press, 2008 M07 28 - 328 páginas Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in the notoriously immature Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Three-and-a-half decades and more than twenty books later, Roth is still at his serious "pursuit of the unserious." But his art of immaturity has itself matured, developing surprising links with two traditions of immaturity--an American one that includes Emerson, Melville, and Henry James, and a late twentieth-century Eastern European one that developed in reaction to totalitarianism. In Philip Roth's Rude Truth--one of the first major studies of Roth's career as a whole--Ross Posnock examines Roth's "mature immaturity" in all its depth and richness. |
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... liberating European current of thought then intoxicating American intellectuals . Both movements granted the mind's shaping powers of perception an unprecedented dignity , a respect for inwardness that developed out of an earlier ...
... liberating but as testament to his numbingly repetitive, misogynistic, priapic obsessions, charges reprised upon the publication of The Dying Animal in 2001. If Roth will always remain beyond the pale for some, that may be the risk of ...
... liberated myself from all that at sixteen years. My father could have killed me, but I absolutely did not want to be a fanatic. To believe in what doesn't exist, no, that wasn't for me.” (257) Instead, Mr. Barbatnik adamantly insists on ...
... liberating insistence on thinking for oneself—easily freezes into another form of fanaticism, that of malignant autonomy (Kepesh of The Dying Animal, for instance). This is the pure product of a society whose root ideology renders the ...
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Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity Ross Posnock,Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock Vista previa limitada - 2006 |