Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of ImmaturityPrinceton University Press, 2008 M07 28 - 328 pages Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in the notoriously immature Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Three-and-a-half decades and more than twenty books later, Roth is still at his serious "pursuit of the unserious." But his art of immaturity has itself matured, developing surprising links with two traditions of immaturity--an American one that includes Emerson, Melville, and Henry James, and a late twentieth-century Eastern European one that developed in reaction to totalitarianism. In Philip Roth's Rude Truth--one of the first major studies of Roth's career as a whole--Ross Posnock examines Roth's "mature immaturity" in all its depth and richness. |
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The Art of Immaturity Ross Posnock. For Sophia Rose Posnock and her bravery I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the.
... I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. —Emerson If you are repelled by immaturity, it is because you are immature. —Witold Gombrowicz Preface xi Acknowledgments xix List of Abbreviations xxi 1 Introduction.
... speak the rude truth , " he vows , but finds that “ every decent and well - spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right " ( Essays 273 , 262 ) . Roth too is not as truculent as he advertises ( the quote above from ...
... speaking ( on a television documentary ) of Roth's most vertiginous novel - Operation Shylock — but his remark applies more broadly — to the provocations of “ counterlife " that Roth imprints on his late work starting on the level of ...
... speaking of the youth culture as testament to the " obsoles- cence of everything our society understands by maturity , " including language itself : in their fondness for " porno - esthetics " and obscenity ( in this era Ed Sanders ...
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