Philip Roth by Hermione Lee

Philip Roth

Hermione Lee

95 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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Roth is a highly literary and referential character and an assessment is made of the conflicting influnces on his work of Kafka, Checkov, Gogol, Henry James, Melville and Henry Youngman, a Jewish nightclub and Vaudeville comic. In addition a close...

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