Reading Myself And Others
Author: Roth, Philip
ISBN: 9780099485025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 03 Dec 2007
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
A collection of Philip Roth's essays, journalism and interviews, reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016
Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own fiction and the range of controversies that it sparked, including his long interview with the Paris Review. Here too are Roth's writings on American fiction, Milan Kundera, baseball, and his deep admiration for Franz Kafka. Coursing through each of these pieces is the Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness that have defined Roth's writing for half a century.
ISBN: 9780099485025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 03 Dec 2007
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
A collection of Philip Roth's essays, journalism and interviews, reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016
Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own fiction and the range of controversies that it sparked, including his long interview with the Paris Review. Here too are Roth's writings on American fiction, Milan Kundera, baseball, and his deep admiration for Franz Kafka. Coursing through each of these pieces is the Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness that have defined Roth's writing for half a century.
