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Il y a 4 jours · The best of these tributes, such as Philip Roth’s essay “I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting”, take the cage as a starting point for the open sky. The least successful find themselves ...
Il y a 3 jours · Philip Roth. “I admired his fasting,” Hobhouse writes in a wink toward Kafka, one of Roth’s heroes. “I admired his stony separateness and self-sufficiency.
Il y a 2 jours · Likewise, the novel’s pastiche of an iconic scene from Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, in which the teenage protagonist masturbates with a piece of liver his mother later serves for dinner, dramatizes the way Vietnam’s colonial history blurs the line between resistance and complicity.
Il y a 1 jour · Writer Philip Roth even imagined the aviator winning the White House against all odds in his novel The Plot Against America. Trump, as he flies across the country aboard a winged school bus, probably feels like the reincarnation of Lindbergh.
Il y a 1 jour · Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel, Fleishman is in Trouble, immediately drew comparisons to Roth, for the sex obsession of Toby, the novel’s titular lead, and for the rapid pace of her prose.
Il y a 9 heures · “Another tale of modern neuroses, told with bombastic appeal….Brodesser-Akner’s sweep and verve is masterful; there are echoes of Philip Roth here in her examination of American Jewish identity, the promise of America, the thrill of reinvention, the prison of privilege.
Il y a 3 jours · He examines, with sympathy and a bracing lack of sentimentality, the ways that traditions can be respected and reinvigorated, and how the present—without being “stuck in the past”—is informed by everything that preceded it. A quiet outrage—at corruption, unfreedom, and injustice—simmers under much of your work, including your new ...
