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 Philip Roth - definition of Philip Roth in Encyclopedia
It is rumoured Roth was infuriated by his unflattering depiction there, and that to exact revenge he caricatured Bloom as the poisonous Eve Frame character in I Married a Communist.
Specifically, Martinson is the inspiration for female characters in several of Roth's novels, including Mary Jane Reed (aka "the Monkey") in Portnoy's Complaint.
In 1994 they separated and in 1996 Bloom published an embarrassing memoir detailing their relationship called Leaving a Doll's House.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Philip_Roth   (731 words)

  
 Roth's Counterlife
Roth as author seems to be illustrating in this way how the text of his life can only be rendered in terms of the texts of other fictional lives.
It shows Roth coming to terms with the fact that he is a writer who, like all writers, cannot escape from the disseminating nature of language which lures him into the labyrinth of textuality.
Seen through her woman's eyes his marriage was the result of his weakness, and he betrays a typical man's distrust of all women throughout the book.
http://www.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/Roth.html   (6311 words)

  
 Floridian: Philip Roth unbound
Roth's novels are studded with land mines for the unwary, for those who try to draw pat, one-to-one correspondences between the man's life and his work.
The unhinged, manically raunchy Portnoy's Complaint (1969) made Roth an emblem of the national id, while in My Life As a Man (1974) he chronicled a writer's entanglement in the marriage from hell.
And I knew this was an extraordinary story being told, and I could see how Philip was responding.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/04/Floridian/Philip_Roth_unbound.shtml   (1866 words)

  
 Featured Author: Philip Roth
Roth insists that the bizarre story of his anti-Zionist double, recounted in "Operation Shylock," is true, even though the book is billed as a novel.
Roth, talking about his book "The Prague Orgy," says "a look at repression in Czechoslovakia was always part of the plan" for the Zuckerman novels.
But the mixture of rage and elegy in the book is remarkable, and you have only to pause over the prose to feel how beautifully it is elaborated, to see that Mr.
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/specials/roth.html&OQ=_rQ3D3Q26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=71191db2Q2F.,Q2AY.Q7EyQ7DeVyyJ.Yyyfe.pH.Q26Q60.Q26Q26.eQ3CQ2AQ7DoQ5EKe.VyJ!-!JuK   (1257 words)

  
 Random House Authors Philip Roth
Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.
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.
A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel.
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=26289   (1380 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books Review Profile: Philip Roth
Roth's monkish routine is at odds with what he once called his "reputation as a crazed penis" bestowed on him by Portnoy's Complaint, his great panegyric to the comedy of sex.
Operation Shylock is a find-the-Roth shell-game, with a false Philip pretending to be the true one until neither is quite sure who is who.
An intensely private man, Philip Roth is one of America's greatest writers.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1300982,00.html   (3608 words)

  
 Philip Roth's The Human Stain
Roth reveals her thoughts as she reflects on her status as a beautiful expatriate intellectual utterly alone in the word.
Writing of the Greek gods, Roth says they are like humans in their cruelty--leaving stains of excrement and semen wherever they go--and their desire for erotic love.
It was such a page turning horror tale, as good as the only Stephen King I read, and had me so upset by the end that I almost flung the book across the room.
http://walkerrowe.com/humanstain.html   (755 words)

  
 Innocence Lost - Philip Roth's American fulminations. By Paul Berman
A mailman stops me in the street--I'm not making this up--to expound his own deduction from Philip Roth's tale of family calamity, to wit, that without a clear sense of God, modern Americans are doomed to lose their bearings and society will go to hell.
Paul Berman is the author of A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968.
Someone else telephones to discuss the radicalism of the 1960s, generational warfare, and the intricacies of black-Jewish relations in industrial New Jersey, as depicted by Philip Roth.
http://www.slate.com/id/2984   (1077 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Roth, Phillip
He is fond of characters named Philip Roth, and often uses biographical events, filtered through his alter-ego narrator Nathan Zuckerman (In Deception, both Roth and his then wife appear by name and profession, she "remarkably uninteresting").
David Gooblar sheds light on Philip Roth and Saul Bellow's fascinating literary friendship.
In a rare interview, Philip Roth, one of America's greatest living authors, tells Danish journalist Martin Krasnik why his new book is all about death - and why literary critics should be shot
http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-121,00.html   (526 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Philip Roth - Books: Meet the Writers
Award-winning author Philip Roth has made a career of confronting the heartbreaking dissolution of relationships, the absurdity of sexual neuroses, and the downside of his own literary fame.
Inspired by the medieval English allegory of the same name, it's the story of a flawed, death-obsessed man (never named).
We first encounter him as he witness his own funeral, and are then whisked backward and forward throughout his life -- an unforgettable literary journey.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=91270   (317 words)

  
 The Valve - A Literary Organ Harmless History
The whole novel is a love song to his parents—a way of resurrecting them from their graves, Roth wrote in the NYTimes Book review.
Like all of the “Philip Roth” novels, in other words, Plot asks us to take note of the fact that it is (in this case, an increasingly outlandish) fabrication.
I hope to take all this up further in a post that will compare Roth’s literary theories to those of some of his contemporaries, but I’ve maundered on far too long already.
http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/harmless_history   (2639 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Plot Against America: A Novel: Books: Philip Roth
The novel is, in addition, a moving family drama, in which Philip's fiercely ethical father, Herman, finds himself unable to protect his loved ones, and a family schism develops between those who understand the eventual outcome of Lindbergh's policies and those who are co-opted into abetting their own potential destruction.
The impact this edict has on Philip and all around him is horrific and life-changing.
Roth does have some fun with the historical figures that appear throughout the book.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618509283?v=glance   (2870 words)

  
 The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
The fable and its moral (it could happen here) are undermined by his unwillingness to really consider it; good triumphs over evil so quickly, easily, and almost arbitrarily that the reader doesn't know what to believe any longer.
Good for his character, good for the Jews, but not so good for the book.
We are force-fed great chunks of expository prose that aren't quite in the register of the boy then nor of the man now (.....) The Plot Against America is a minor addition to the Roth canon, but is none the less welcome.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/rothp/plotaa.htm   (2928 words)

  
 Reviewer's Bookwatch: Philip Roth Novels and Stories 1959-1962
A two-volume set, Philip Roth Novels and Stories 1959-1962 and Philip Roth Novels 1967-1972 is the Library of America's definitive edition of the collected works of Philip Roth.
Both published by special arrangement with the author, the volumes gather his early works and also offer a brief chronology of Roth's life as well as an assortment of notes on the texts, the better to clarify little-known references.
Philip Roth Novels and Stories 1959-1962 (Book) / Book reviews
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0RGU/is_2005_Sept/ai_n15380487   (247 words)

  
 Heil to the Chief
But to Roth, the Gentile heartland is hell.
Dissenters must be demonized, so Roth saddles his America First villains with positions exactly opposite those they actually took.
Coincidentally, I slogged through Roth right after reading three Kentucky novels: Berry’s Watch With Me (1994), James Still’s River of Earth (1940), and The Time of Man (1926) by Elizabeth Madox Roberts.
http://www.amconmag.com/2004_09_27/review.html   (2070 words)

  
 Philip Roth — www.greenwood.com
Simon's Rock College of Bard: It is a book of revelations, in which original, sympathetic and well-informed readings of Roth's major works...provide fascinating insights into the achievement of one of America's most important writers that will be of interest to both students and scholars.
author of Up Society's Ass Copper: Rereading Philip Roth: Royal's new anthology of critical essays on Philip Roth is a timely addition to the growing library of books to weigh in on Roth as our most important contemporary novelist....The editor's charge to his writers was to start afresh, make it new, and so they have.
Each chapter introduces the work or works under discussion, provides a brief summary of the story, and moves on to a lively analysis of its various literary elements and its significance in Roth's overall body of work.
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?sku=C8363   (785 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Plot Against America: Books
Helpless young Philip is a protagonist to pity rather than root for.
All that said, the book is superbly written - Roth is brilliant on character, especially the dynamics of families, and can turn a paragraph expertly from wit to tragedy and back again better than virtually anyone else writing today.
Instead, the reader must plough their way through a relatively boring family history, seeing it through the eyes of a young boy, a character who just so happens to be named Philip Roth.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099478560   (1363 words)

  
 MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Philip Roth
Roth's storytelling genius fashions a kind of medieval morality play in which Eli shuttles between two opposing forces--man's expedient law and God's absolute Law.
To Kafka and, less stringently, to other Central and Eastern European authors, Philip Roth feels himself related, in spite--or maybe because--of his American immunity from their historical fate.
He also wrote one book of unalloyed candor, an absorbing memoir of his father's death: Patrimony (1991) is subtitled A True Story.
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/literature/Overview_Jewish_American_Literature/Into_The_Literary_Mainstream/Literature_PhilRoth_Norton.htm   (1202 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Philip Roth
The title story of the collection was made into a motion picture in 1969 (see Goodbye, Columbus).
The Human Stain was made into a motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman in 2003.
Much of Roth’s work explores the nature of sexual desire and self-understanding.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761553683/Roth_Philip.html   (832 words)

  
 PopMatters Books Feature Roth Appreciation Philip Roth -- Welcome to the Canon
As for his place in the canon, one could persuasively argue that Roth has written more great novels than Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway combined.
I also recognize that each of these other five writers was also a master of the short story, a form Roth abandoned after his first book.)
Where does he fit in the canon of American literature?
http://www.popmatters.com/books/features/051216-philiproth-shymanik.shtml   (1496 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Philip Roth Discusses Latest Novel The Plot Against America -- October 27, 2004
Jeffrey Brown talks with author Philip Roth about his latest novel, "The Plot Against America," in part one of a two-part interview.
Now 71, the very private Roth invited us for a rare visit on a glorious fall day at his home in Cornwall, Connecticut.
Roth himself grew up in Newark, and in this novel, he's carefully depicted his own family in the 1940s: Father; mother; brother; and himself as a young boy.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec04/philiproth_10-27.html   (1194 words)

  
 Book Club: The Plot Against America. By Nicholas Lemann and Judith Shulevitz
Unfamiliar premise notwithstanding, the book starts out in a familiar place: the parkless streets of the lower-middle-class Jewish Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, N.J., where Philip grew up, and where many of his novels have been set or at least began.
In other words, though The Plot Against America obeys the laws of its own historical logic, though it forbids us to read it like a map or travel guide to the present, it still has much of our contemporary reality in it.
Click here to read more from Slate's "Book Blitz."
http://www.slate.com/id/2107947/entry/2108055   (1073 words)

  
 Philip Roth Blows Up
It was his bid for immortality, the crown jewel in his new three-book contract with Simon and Schuster, for which he got paid a handsome seven figures.
William Styron says the 67-year-old author has recently "possessed his writing like someone possessed." Harold Bloom, the professional gray eminence, recently teased Roth about being a modern Anthony Trollope, who used to complete one novel and start the next on the same sheet of paper.
Roth himself thought he'd broken out of his rut with Operation Shylock in 1993.
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/features/2983   (848 words)

  
 NPR : Philip Roth Discusses His Latest Accolade
Now the Library of America is releasing a collection of all Roth's books -- a rare honor for a living author.
The nonprofit Library of America is meant to preserve significant American writing in authoritative editions.
The Roth releases are only the third time a living author's work has been reissued by the publisher -- the other two were Saul Bellow and Eudora Welty.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4865614&ft=1&f=1033   (347 words)

  
 CNN/TIME - America's Best
Roth is a serious writer who has never been somber in print; his narrative voice is unique, and so is the way he consistently wrings slapstick comedy out of the tics and obsessions of his characters.
Once a book is out of your hands, readers make of it what they will."
But one of his more intriguing aspects has been his refusal to tailor his work to anyone else's expectations.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/pro.proth.html   (911 words)

  
 Roth, Philip: The Human Stain
The Human Stain is the third of Philip Roth's trilogy of novels that explore the relationship between public and private life in America during the second half of the 20th century.
While Roth might consider fanaticism the root of evil, his persona (in the voice of Zuckerman or otherwise) is anything but moderate.
In this and the other novels of his trilogy, Roth has his style-to-story ratio under control.
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/roth11900-des-.html   (622 words)

  
 "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth Salon.com
You can see all the strings and gears here, as in "The Human Stain," in which Coleman Silk is given a wife solely so that she can be hounded unto death by a university's administration and thus provide sufficient justification for Silk's foaming hatred of that administration.
This is Roth's oldest gripe -- that as an artist and a man he's been subjected to unfair claims on his loyalty and identity.
As a result, Roth has had to contrive some pretty preposterous scenarios, populated by an assortment of straw-man oppressors, in order to maneuver his main characters into a position in which they can be unjustly tormented.
http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2004/09/29/roth/index_np.html   (643 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Philip Roth honored in old Newark neighborhood
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Philip Roth has been honored in his hometown of Newark, which has served as the setting for many of his 26 books.
Roth last visited the home, where he lived from 1933 to 1942, two years ago.
Roth, whose American Pastoral was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997, was greeted at his childhood home by 75 fans who were on a bus tour Sunday of places in Newark that have been featured in his novels.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-10-24-roth-honored_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (243 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Philip Roth
After many years of teaching comparative literature -- mostly at the University of Pennsylvania -- Philip Roth retired from teaching as a Distinguished Professor of Literature at Hunter College in 1992.
Until 1989, he was General Editor of the Penguin book series "Writers from the Other Europe," which he inaugurated in 1974 and which introduced the work of Bruno Schulz and Milan Kundera to an American audience.
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1933 and has lived in Rome, London, Chicago, and New York.
http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-roth-philip.asp   (211 words)

  
 Philip Roth
with a mixture of comedy and savagery, have often been imaginative amalgams of autobiography and fiction, sometimes with doppelgänger Nathan Zuckerman standing in for the author or with “Philip Roth” appearing as character or narrator.
Roth also has written a nonfiction account of his father's death,
Interview: Philip Roth discusses his novel "The Plot Against America"
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0842497.html   (355 words)

  
 Philip Roth
"The source of evil in the world of Roth's trilogy is the temptation to purity, to expunge the human stain, to repeal the banishment from Paradise."
Charles McGrath interviews Philip Roth about his most recent novels.
Jack Murnighan returns to Philip Roth's novel Sabbath's Theater, this time pondering a scene in which the title character is caught masturbating under compromising circumstances.
http://www.dazereader.com/philiproth.htm   (551 words)

  
 PopMatters Books Feature Roth Appreciation Introduction
A man of time and place such as Roth couldn't ask for a better honor.
Justin Cober-Lake looks at Roth's My Life as a Man, an early and under-appreciated book in the writer's canon that sets the postmodern narrative tone for his future works.
Tim O'Neil looks at Roth's latest, The Plot Against America: a book not so much about the alternate history as about the nature and character of Jewishness.
http://www.popmatters.com/books/features/051216-philiproth.shtml   (604 words)

  
 rodcorp: How we work: Philip Roth, author
He works standing up, paces around while he's thinking and has said he walks half a mile for every page he writes.
Phillip Roth stands while he's working, and "walks half a mile for every page".
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http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/12/how_we_work_phi.html   (423 words)

  
 Philip Roth (II)
Find where Philip Roth is credited alongside another name
Veteran character actor; born in KC, Mo., Roth served in the Army during WWII...
aka C.A.S.H. aka W.H.I.F.F.S. Harry and Tonto (1974) (as Phil Roth)....
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744981   (128 words)

  
 Preserving words of a provocateur - 08/09/05
Roth, a two-time National Book Award winner, joins Saul Bellow and Eudora Welty as the only American writers to have their complete works preserved by the Library of America during their lifetimes.
That Roth preceded other contemporary writers such as John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates in having his works preserved had more to do with serendipity than any rating system.
Cementing his position as one of America's leading 20th century literary voices, Philip Roth will see the nonprofit Library of America publish an eight-volume collection of his novels and stories beginning later this summer.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/books/0508/09/0ent-275372.htm   (751 words)

  
 Philip Roth's Patrimony (Imagination): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Roth, one of the most important American novelists of the last half of the century, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for this book.
Roth donated all the drafts of his early works, including
, Philip Roth's 1991 non-fiction work about his father's last years and death.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri092.html   (148 words)

  
 BULLETIN 40 - PHILIP ROTH
At the beginning of Roth's autobiographical novel The Facts (1988), the author cites a passage attributed to Nathan Zuckerman in The Counterlife (1987): "And as he spoke I was thinking, the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives that people turn stories into."
Philip Roth has inured as an author by turning sentences around in his most interesting and almost always stimulating novels.
So maligned and criticized was he from all sectors of the Jewish community, including the American rabbinate, that his succeeding works seemed to be apologetic in nature; that is, they were written in defense of his craft.
http://www.emanuelnyc.org/bulletin/archive/39.html   (192 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Philip Roth
On the last page of Philip Roth’s memoir Patrimony (1991), he tells of a terrifying dream that came in the weeks following the burial of his father, an assimilated secular Jew who had never exhibited any particular inclination toward faith.
As is well known among aficionados of literary scandals, for the sins of Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) as well as the short stories eventually collected in Goodbye Columbus, Philip Roth attracted a number of dismayed detractors who charged him with creating willful stereotypes of Jewish life.
It would take the passage of many years for a later generation of Jewish critics to uncover a deeper subtext, in which Alex actually seems to exhibit a sense of indebtedness to the struggles and dreams of his parents’ generation.
http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4939   (574 words)

  
 Philip Roth The Plot Against America books : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Patrimony (1991) Roth pays homage to his obstinate father without sentimentality in this nonfictional account of his cancer-plagued final year and the old man's rage against the dying of the light.
Sabbath's Theater (1995) Roth returns to form with this tale of puppeteer Mickey Sabbath, who, despite his advanced age, still has a Portnoy-sized, Viagra-fueled obsession with sex.
If you want to learn why Roth is considered one of the titans of contemporary American letters, or if Plot Against America sends you to the library for more of his work, here's our suggested reading list:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,708865_5_0_,00.html   (655 words)

  
 Awards and Honors (Library of Congress).
His first published work, “Goodbye, Columbus,” won Roth the 1960 National Book Award in fiction and was made into a major motion picture in 1969.
A prolific writer, Philip Roth’s works often concern American Jewish Life.
He was educated at Bucknell and Rutgers universities and taught English at the universities of Chicago and Iowa.
http://www.loc.gov/about/awards/legends/bio/roth.html   (112 words)

  
 Roth, Philip (Milton) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Roth, Philip (Milton)
Roth's series of semi-autobiographical novels about a writer, Nathan Zuckerman, consist of The Ghost Writer (1979), Zuckerman Unbound (1981), The Anatomy Lesson (1984), and The Counterlife (1993).
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel American Pastoral (1997), the National Medal of Arts in 1998, and the National Book Awards' 2002 medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Roth,+Philip+(Milton)   (185 words)

  
 'NYT' Hearts Philip Roth A Bit Too Much
Look, I love the Jews just as much as anyone else, but the Rothlove has to stop before it kills us all.
If we see another Philip Roth plug in the Times, we're seriously going to claw out our eyes.
And can someone please explain the point of wandering the streets of [Roth's native] Newark without the author?
http://www.gawker.com/topic/nyt-hearts-philip-roth-a-bit-too-much-023461.php   (205 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: Philip Roth
The New York Review of Books: Philip Roth
November 14, 1974: Philip Roth and the Jews: An Exchange
The cover date of the next issue of The New York Review of Books will be May 25, 2006.
http://www.nybooks.com/authors/383   (232 words)

  
 BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Philip Roth
Philip Roth has earned a reputation as a chronicler of Jewish suburbia, describing the angst-ridden materialism of the Jewish American bourgeoisie in a number of angry, painful and darkly humorous novels.
BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Philip Roth
You will need RealPlayer to access these clips.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/rothp1.shtml   (49 words)

  
 Philip L. Roth
He has published articles in Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
His research interests include the employment interview, the economic impact of employment tests, and how to handle missing data in statistical analyses.
Roth has taught classes in organizational behavior, human resource management, research methods, and statistics.
http://business.clemson.edu/managemt/faculty/l3_fac_Roth.html   (107 words)

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