No novels from Roth anymore

[alice wellintown]

The point is obvious enough and much discussed by the Roth critical
industry. Roth has been involved in an interplay between autobiography
anf fiction for some time, if not from the start of his writing
career. Those familiar with his essays and works of fiction must take
delight in what seems a capstone to remarkable career.

http://derekroyal.com/Operation%20Shylock.pdf



On 11/12/12, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>  I don't understand what you mean here.  Could you elaborate?
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> Roth has been moving in this direction for some
> time. And, it is certainly a positive; even the fanatic cannot deny
> this.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 11:47 am
> Subject: Re: No novels from Roth anymore
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> Mark sez,
>> Shakespeare also wrote Two Gentleman of Verona.
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> The analogy fails to reason because Roth is in his late days, as is
> Pynchon, but Shakespeare's play dates from his earlies days as
> playwright, hence the  relative immaturities and crudities in
> structure and poetry. Roth has been moving in this direction for some
> time. And, it is certainly a positive; even the fanatic cannot deny
> this. But Pynchon's last is not. The shame is that Pynchon may go out
> with a wimpering puff of dope when he might go out with a bang by
> doinng something novel.
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