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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... phrase associated with that meticulous student of Cervantes, Nabokov. Roth and Nabokov share with Kundera a less than reverential attitude to the nineteenth-century elevation of realism into the prime responsi- bility of the serious ...
... phrase of Gombrowicz's). The “un- curtailed primal element” in Adorno flourished, as Habermas observes, thanks to the protective devotions of his wife. This last point raises the question of immaturity's relation to gender. Is it solely ...
... phrases (533, 538). The genre's special preserve is its avid and intimate access to pri- vate life, the distinctive domain of Roth's unbalanced fiction, which mimics the anarchy of the uncensored in artifacts of relentless verbal en ...
... phrase of the aging rake David Kepesh in The Dying Animal ( 105 ) . His acidic monologue would seem to be the polar opposite of The Plot Against America , as it depicts the Rothian isolato ( to borrow Melville's term ) in extremis , a ...
... phrases haunting him as the apt epitaph of his life ( 251 ) . Refusing all fanaticism , Mr. Barbatnik's lucidity coincides with Kant's Enlightenment imperative " have the courage to use your own under- standing ! " Such sober ...
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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 |