- Editorial:
- VINTAGE
- Año de edición:
- 2018
- Materia
- Literatura internacional
- ISBN:
- 978-0-375-71413-9
- Páginas:
- 160
- Encuadernación:
- Rústica
SHOP TALK
A WRITER AND HIS COLLEAGUES AND THEIR WORK
ROTH, PHILIP
u003cbu003eDeeply intimate encounters between the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author of u003ciu003eAmerican Pastoral u003c/iu003eand the greatest writers and artists of the 20th centuryfrom Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Edna OBrien and Philip Guston.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003eu003cbu003eRoth manages to tease from his subjects the convictions that fuel their work and the vulnerabilities that make them human. u003ciu003eThe New York Times Book Reviewu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003e In Philip Roths intimate intellectual conversations with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writers highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life.u003cbru003eu003cbru003e With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the stubborn core of rationality that helped the Italian chemist-writer survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz. With Milan Kundera, he analyzes the mix of politics and sexuality that made him the most subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia. With Edna OBrien, he explores the circumstances that have forced generations of Irish writers into exile. u003cbru003eu003cbru003eElsewhere Roth offers appreciative portraits of two friendsthe writer Bernard Malamud and the painter Philip Gustonat the end of their careers, and gives us a masterful assessment of the work of Saul Bellow. Intimate, charming, and crackling with ideas about the interplay between imagination and the writers historical situation, u003ciu003eShop Talku003c/iu003e is a literary symposium of the highest level, presided over by Americas foremost novelist.