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The Relentless Philip Roth
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In his life as in his fiction, the author pursued the shameful, the libidinous, the repellent.
By James Parker
This article was published online on March 13, 2021.
Was there ever a novelist who was more of a novelist than Philip Roth?
More of a long-haul moralist, more of a titanic grump, more of a sex fiend, more of an industrial reality-processor, more of a deskbound hero, more of a get-up-early-and-feed-your-life-into-the-grinder (even if your back is killing you) type of guy?
His prose is prose, definitively prose, anti-felicitous and slightly barbarous.
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No Updikean grace notes, no heavenly Bellow-isms, no glassy Cheeveresque rhapsodies. When it’s bad, it’s mechanical. When it’s good, it’s biblical: stacked clauses and surging power and a shaking of fists at the skies.
Thirty-one books.
A 55-year career that basically turned himself and everyone around him inside out. The questions to which he sought answers, the questions of