Award-winning author Philip Roth has made a career of confronting the heartbreaking dissolution of relationships, the absurdity of sexual neuroses, and the downside of his own literary fame. Many of his readers believe that Roth has been merely writing his own story for nearly fifty years. by Philip Roth ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 19, Roth—the most relentlessly and trickily autobiographical of major American novelists—now offers "to demythologize myself and play it straight, to pair the facts as lived with the facts as presented." This book was written, he says, in the wake of a nervous breakdown—"to transform myself into myself, I began rendering experience . The Facts is a rigorously unfictionalized narrative that portrays Philip Roth unadorned--as young artist, as student, as son, as lover, as husband, as American, as Jew--and candidly examines how close the novels have been to, and how far from, autobiography/5(57).
Last Updated on May 5, , by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: On the dust jacket of The Facts is a photograph of Roth's senior homeroom class at Weequahic High School in Newark. The. The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction--a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and forties; his education in American life at a conventional college. Philip Roth obituary. Poignantly humane novelist set on emancipating American literature from respectability. Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral author, dies aged Philip.
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography. "Prologue" (About his father) "Safe at Home" (Growing up in a Jewish neighborhood) "Joe College" (College life, first love) "Girl of My Dreams" (Chicago years, the woman who became his first wife) "All in the Family" (Defending himself against Jewish community. by Philip Roth ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 19, Roth—the most relentlessly and trickily autobiographical of major American novelists—now offers "to demythologize myself and play it straight, to pair the facts as lived with the facts as presented." This book was written, he says, in the wake of a nervous breakdown—"to transform myself into myself, I began rendering experience untransformed"—and it consists of five smallish memoirs for his life up to around age plus a fine. Overview. The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction—a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and forties; his education in American life at a conventional college; his passionate entanglement, as an ambitious young man, with the angriest person he ever.
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