Posts tagged Philip Roth

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
Philip Roth
theparisreview: “I occasionally have an anti-Roth reader in mind. I think, ‘How he is going to hate this!’ That can be just the encouragement I need.” —Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84 [Sometimes I truly do not understand Philip Roth’s idea of literature. Granted there is a context here and I may be taking this quote out of its proper context, but he’s basically saying, “Let’s get the reader to hate this.” Way to go Roth, that’ll get ‘em reading your material. If that’s his encouragement to write, then he should not complain today that people do not read his material any longer. Just food for thought.]

theparisreview:

“I occasionally have an anti-Roth reader in mind. I think, ‘How he is going to hate this!’ That can be just the encouragement I need.”

—Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84

[Sometimes I truly do not understand Philip Roth’s idea of literature. Granted there is a context here and I may be taking this quote out of its proper context, but he’s basically saying, “Let’s get the reader to hate this.” Way to go Roth, that’ll get ‘em reading your material. If that’s his encouragement to write, then he should not complain today that people do not read his material any longer. Just food for thought.]

“There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they’ve got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.”—Philip Roth; The Human Stain

“There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they’ve got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.”
—Philip Roth; The Human Stain

evanfleischer:

Paul Auster: Why Phillip Roth is Wrong About the Novel.

[I’m not sure Auster is correct about what Roth is saying about “the novel.” I don’t think Roth is saying the novel in general is dying, I think he means that a certain type of novel is dying. Roth is being a literary snob, as he has been in the past. And because of this, he thinks the novel, the literary novel and not the popular novel, is a thing of the past. If that’s the case, then I disagree with Roth and agree with Auster that the novel is merely taking a different form.]

Philip Roth’s Short Novels

Philip Roth’s Short Novels