Just beginning to read "American Pastoral" having just discovered Roth. My God, he writes beautifully and insightfully. May just draw me back into reading fiction on a regular basis again.
Same story! I had troubles with reading, habe them till this day but since I've watched "Elegy" with Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley based on the book "The dying animal". I've bought the book! I've read the book! I loved it!❤
I have only read a few of his novels and I was overwhelmed by them. I never felt the way I did after reading two to three pages. I felt drunk. His prose intoxicated me.
That's my father #MartinWeich at the 18:30 min point of the #PhilipRoth Documentaries in this video on the left: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5G8Z2vrLpzA.htmlm30s and at the 13:40 min point: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dh_tCH4ztRM.htmlm40s . and at 11:min next to Phil on the right: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eSgO4XUK9dA.htmlm . Does anyone know who I can contact to get the unedited footage of him? Phil was a good friend of the family. My best, #GraigWeich #MartinJWeich #MartinJoelWeich #BeyondComics #BeyondComcsTV #PhilRoth @philiproth @philroth
To write about your Jewishness and Jewish life as well as sex is to be courageous. Yes, Roth was a stand-up comic, emphasis on “stand-up”which means you stand up for who you are. In Roth’s case, he was born and brought up a Jew, a writer and a highly sexual man. His way of standing up for himself was to own it all as he saw it. “Portnoy’s Complaint” is one of the funniest books of all time. You miss it at your peril.
I agree with you, Roth is undeniably brilliant. But Roth's writing has also contributed to the general erosion of gentility, nobility, propriety, and chastity that characterised gentile society pre-WW2. Cultural standards have shifted dramatically partly due to the unprecedented influence of the Hebraic character. Many consider this a 'liberation' and a very good thing. Personally, I have my doubts...
If he approved of 'The Human Stain' film rendering...........the obvious was before, and law enforcement would have decided good riddance....the Harris character was a stupid sidebar
