No novels from Roth anymore

[Markekohut]

"I am the only one I know who does not know what the word "postmodern" even means." 
I just try to tell the story I want the best way I can"---Philip Roth to Terri Gross, in interview after
the Plot Against America...


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On Nov 12, 2012, at 7:19 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

> The point now, yes, is obvious.  Your post, as is so often the case, made it less than.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 5:28 pm
> Subject: Re: No novels from Roth anymore
> 
> 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?
> >
> >
> > Roth has been moving in this direction for some
> > time. And, it is certainly a positive; even the fanatic cannot deny
> > this.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----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
> >
> >
> > Mark sez,
> >> Shakespeare also wrote Two Gentleman of Verona.
> >
> > 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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