Philip Roth, RIP

[mjzee]

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/

[ejp626]

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.

[soulpope]

"Age is not a fight, age is a massacre" Philip Roth R.I.P ....

[jlhoots]

R.I.P.

Ends his chance for the Nobel.

[paul secor]

31 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

R.I.P.

Ends his chance for the Nobel.

Don't guess that matters to him now.

[HutchFan]

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.

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, paul secor said:

Don't guess that matters to him now.

Matters / mattered to me.

[J.A.W.]

He should have been awarded the Nobel.

[Brad]

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

[HutchFan]

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

[danasgoodstuff]

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.

[paul secor]

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.

[danasgoodstuff]

On 5/30/2018 at 1:15 PM, paul secor said:

Two guys in two different worlds.

Two guys, certainly, but one world.