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Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author (review)
Ist Teil von
Shofar, 2008, Vol.26 (2), p.149-151
Ort / Verlag
West Lafayette: Purdue University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Living up to this book's subtitle of "new perspectives on an American author,"Julie Husband convincingly argues that instead of thinking of these early works as failures or experiments which paved the way for his future success, these works might best be viewed as offering readers "an intriguing view of Roth's struggle with second-wave feminism" (p. 25). Speaking of the long monologue which is Portnoy's Complaint, Brauner places Roth's experimental novel in a European modernist context, suggesting that Alex Portnoy's stream-of-consciousness narration should be seen in light of Roth's interest in Joyce and Woolf and that"his preoccupation with bodily functions [is] an extension of those exhibited by the narrators of Joyce's and D. H. Lawrence's fiction; his guilt and shame [are] an echo of the morbid masochism of Franz Kafka; his comic neuroses inherited from the protagonists of Italo Swevo and Gogol" (p. 45).