TY  - GEN
T1  - Philip Roth's rude truth : the art of immaturity
A1  - Posnock, Ross
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn369293576
AB  - Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in the notoriously immature Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Three-and-a-half decades and more than twenty books later, Roth is still at his serious "pursuit of the unserious." But his art of immaturity has itself matured, developing surprising links with two traditions of immaturity--an American one that includes Em
OP  - 301
NO  - Originally published: 2006.
CN  - PS3568.O855 Z566 2008eb
SN  - 9781400827343
SN  - 1400827345
SN  - 1282086898
SN  - 9781282086890
SN  - 9780691138435
SN  - 0691138435
KW  - Roth, Philip : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Roth, Philip
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -