mjzee Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 Philip Roth, the American novelist who penned the celebrated “Portnoy’s Complaint,” died at the age of 85 on Tuesday. https://nypost.com/2018/05/22/award-winning-novelist-philip-roth-dead-at-85/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 RIP. Definitely one of the masters. Later this month, I'll be reading the trilogy that includes Professor of Desire. Someday I'll have to get back around to Zuckerman Bound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 "Age is not a fight, age is a massacre" Philip Roth R.I.P .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 R.I.P. Ends his chance for the Nobel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 31 minutes ago, jlhoots said: R.I.P. Ends his chance for the Nobel. Don't guess that matters to him now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 About a decade ago, I finally got around to reading my first Roth novel -- American Pastoral. It blew me away, and I immediately went on a Roth bender, reading a dozen or so of his books. What a voyage! Mention Roth's name, and people inevitably bring up his focus on sex, his enormous scabrous streak. But the scope of Roth's writing was so much broader than that! He was a heavyweight, a GIANT. I'm sorry that he's gone, but I'm thankful for the legacy he's left behind. R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 1 hour ago, paul secor said: Don't guess that matters to him now. Matters / mattered to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 He should have been awarded the Nobel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 Couple of articles in today’s New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/philip-roth-in-the-new-yorker?mbid=nl_Daily%20052318&CNDID=48103853&spMailingID=13569010&spUserID=MTczODY1MTk5MjI5S0&spJobID=1402136256&spReportId=MTQwMjEzNjI1NgS2 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/05/08/into-the-clear?mbid=nl_Daily%20052318&CNDID=48103853&spMailingID=13569010&spUserID=MTczODY1MTk5MjI5S0&spJobID=1402136256&spReportId=MTQwMjEzNjI1NgS2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 (edited) On 5/23/2018 at 6:39 PM, Brad said: Couple of articles in today’s New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/philip-roth-in-the-new-yorker?mbid=nl_Daily%20052318&CNDID=48103853&spMailingID=13569010&spUserID=MTczODY1MTk5MjI5S0&spJobID=1402136256&spReportId=MTQwMjEzNjI1NgS2 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/05/08/into-the-clear?mbid=nl_Daily%20052318&CNDID=48103853&spMailingID=13569010&spUserID=MTczODY1MTk5MjI5S0&spJobID=1402136256&spReportId=MTQwMjEzNjI1NgS2 Thank you for sharing these links, Brad. I love this Roth quote from Remnick's essay, which seems to sum up something very central to Roth's writing: “'Everyone knows' is the invocation of the cliché and the beginning of the banalization of experience, and it’s the solemnity and the sense of authority that people have in voicing the cliché that’s so insufferable. What we know is that, in an unclichéd way, nobody knows anything. You can’t know anything. The things you know you don’t know. Intention? Motive? Consequence? Meaning? All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing." This recurrent idea in Roth reminds me very much of Tolstoy. Edited May 30, 2018 by HutchFan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 4 hours ago, HutchFan said: Thank you for sharing these links, Brad. I love this Roth quote from Remnick's essay, which seems to sum up something very central to Roth's writing: “'Everyone knows' is the invocation of the cliché and the beginning of the banalization of experience, and it’s the solemnity and the sense of authority that people have in voicing the cliché that’s so insufferable. What we know is that, in an unclichéd way, nobody knows anything. You can’t know anything. The things you know you don’t know. Intention? Motive? Consequence? Meaning? All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing." This recurrent idea in Roth reminds me very much of Tolstoy. Reminds me of why I got so pissed off at the guy in NYR who said 'no one would deny that Cole Porter is wittier than Chuck Berry'...not to go totally off on a tangent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 20 minutes ago, danasgoodstuff said: Reminds me of why I got so pissed off at the guy in NYR who said 'no one would deny that Cole Porter is wittier than Chuck Berry'...not to go totally off on a tangent. Two guys in two different worlds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 On 5/30/2018 at 1:15 PM, paul secor said: Two guys in two different worlds. Two guys, certainly, but one world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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