《20世紀的書》紐約時報書評--聯經出版公司 ，2000；北京：三聯，2002：由於有索引，找本周過世的 Philips Roth，讀後，一定有啟發。
The New Yorker
After Philip Roth reached the pinnacle of what would have been a typical creative career, he redoubled his sense of discipline and set himself free. He became a monk of fiction.
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David Remnick Remembers Philip Roth’s Propulsive Force
The great American novelist has died, at the age of eighty-five. His vitality on the page never dwindled.
Benjamin Markovits explores the novels of Philip Roth, who gained new material with each stage of life
Novelists, he says, are like those ‘people who walk into the police station and confess to crimes they haven’t committed’.
| ...In a career that stretched into his 70s, Mr. Roth produced more than 30 books — including “Portnoy’s Complaint,” “Goodbye, Columbus” and “American Pastoral” — that often explored male sexuality and Jewish American life. ... |
| Mr. Roth spoke with The Times about his life and accomplishments in a video interview in 2011. “Radical change is the nature of American life,” he said. “That’s the only permanent thing we have, is radical change.” |
Reflecting on the life and work of Philip Roth (1933–2018), who made the novel ‘a mode of madcap, reckless offence’
The New Yorker
Remembering the writer, who has died at the age of eighty-five, in our pages.
Philip Roth, the Seminal American Novelist, Has Died
The future Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner published his first story in The New Yorker, “The Kind of Person I Am,” in 1958.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach—that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never spontaneous again."
―from AMERICAN PASTORAL (1997) by Philip Roth
―from AMERICAN PASTORAL (1997) by Philip Roth
Here is Philip Roth’s masterpiece—an elegy for the American century’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth’s protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father’s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede’s beautiful American luck deserts him. For Swede’s adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/american-pastoral-by-…/
“I wasn’t prepared, you see. I wasn’t prepared at all for the loss. His books are still so vital that they seem to spring from my shelf even now. They seem to vault into my hands with life and feeling and heart and rage.”
“Pain is like a baby crying. What it wants it can't name.”
―from THE ANATOMY LESSON (1983) by Philip Roth
―from THE ANATOMY LESSON (1983) by Philip Roth
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction—pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman
Philip Roth, one of the most celebrated US novelists of the second half of the twentieth century, has died aged 85.
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“Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.”
―from THE DYING ANIMAL (2001) by Philip Roth
―from THE DYING ANIMAL (2001) by Philip Roth
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you’re not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college–as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete’s critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated. The agency of Kepesh’s undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous and humblingly beautiful 24-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged–helplessly, bitterly, furiously–into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality, license and repression, selfishness and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.
“I know the kind of man I am and the kind of writer. I have my own kind of bravery, and please, let’s leave it at that.”
―from THE GHOST WRITER (1979) by Philip Roth
―from THE GHOST WRITER (1979) by Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff’s, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a ha⋯⋯
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“For all that I announce at intervals that I want to go mad, it is apparently impossible: beyond me, beneath me. It took This for me to learn that I am a citadel of sanity.”
―from THE BREAST (1972) by Philip Roth
―from THE BREAST (1972) by Philip Roth
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka’s protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth’s richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh’s metamorphosis—a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-breast-by-philip-…/
“People are unjust to anger—it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.”
―from THE COUNTERLIFE (1986) by Philip Roth
―from THE COUNTERLIFE (1986) by Philip Roth
THE COUNTERLIFE is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book’s evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the miind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that’s paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist’s office in suburban New Jersey, or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, or in a church in London’s West End, or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel’s occupied West Bank. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-counter-life-by-p…/
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