The Jewish-American novel after Bellow & Roth

[Edward]

I second *Witz*.

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  Joshua Cohen* Witz *
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> Sorry but can't the world just forget Foer. I tried but stopped caring and
> stopped.* *
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> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Bekah
> >Sent: May 14, 2011 8:55 AM
> >To: alice wellintown
> >Cc: pynchon -l
> >Subject: Re: The Jewish-American novel after Bellow & Roth
> >
> >I've read all the books mentioned in the article except I didn't finish
> the "Policeman's Union" but have read several of Chabon's other works. Yes,
> I've noticed a kind of "new generation" of Jewish-American writers. But what
> I thought I perceived is that these writers, being another generation
> removed from first-hand experience of the Holocaust, are freer to explore it
> with "flashier" literary devices. They're totally unafraid of humor. If I
> remember correctly, Bellow was funny but within a certain respectful
> distance. Foer isn't bound by that in Everything is Illuminated.
> >
> >I enjoy Roth and Bellow and also Chabon and Foer (Krauss the least).
> They're just different generation talking about the same thing (the Jewish
> experience in America) in different ways. Shoot - life in America is
> different from what Augie March experienced in the post WWII 1950s. Bellow
> and Roth have a certain resonance of post WWII Americana - the others are
> post 9/11.
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> >I'm probably a bigger fan of the later Roth than of any of the others but
> he can be quite uneven. Overall Roth and Bellow are probably the better
> writers, but they've got what - 20 books each over a period of 40 - 50
> years? What about Bernard Malamud, Isaac B. Singer or Cynthia Ozick? I
> really think there used to be more Jewish authors - maybe not.
> >
> >Bekah
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> >On May 14, 2011, at 5:21 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
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> >> What is going on here? Why are these young American Jews trying to
> >> find out things about their fathers and grandfathers? I think each is
> >> attempting to answer the question: how does one write Jewish-American
> >> novels after Bellow and Roth?
> >>
> >> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2011/04/jewish-american-history
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