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In Philip Roth's intimate intellectual encounters 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 writer's highly individualised art is informed by the wider conditions of life. Milan Kundera and Czechoslovakia, Primo Levi and Auschwitz, Edna O'Brien and Ireland, Aharon Appelfeld and Bukovina, Ivan Klima and Prague, Isaac Singer and Warsaw, Bruno Schulz and Poland - what is the intricate transaction between the susceptible writer and the provocative time and place? Roth's questions go to the original conditions that stimulate the narrative impulse, and he puts them to writers who are as attuned to the subtleties of literature as to the influence of the surrounding society. Also included here are appreciative portraits of two of Roth's late friends, each transfixed till the end by his artistic vocation - the writer Bernard Malamud and the painter Philip Guston - as well as several cartoons drawn by Guston, a gift to Roth to illustrate his novella The Breast and printed here for the first time. Shop Talk concludes with Roth's essay 'Rereading Saul Bellow', a vivid presentation of Bellow's achievement and, in the spirit of this collection, very much a colleague's reading.
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" Roth manages to tease from his subjects the convictions that fuel their work and the vulnerabilities that make them human.... Yet another example of [his] clarity of purpose and singular intelligence." -- "The New York Times Book Review
"" [Roth] brings out something adamantine and irreducible about each of his interlocutors.... Ring[s] with what his readers will recognize as...Rothian intelligence." -- "The New York Times
"" Fascinating glimpses of some of the deans of postwar literature [and] a working diagram of the very engine that makes Roth run." -- "Los Angeles Times Book Review
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"Roth manages to tease from his subjects the convictions that fuel their work and the vulnerabilities that make them human.... Yet another example of [his] clarity of purpose and singular intelligence." --"The New York Times Book Review
""[Roth] brings out something adamantine and irreducible about each of his interlocutors.... Ring[s] with what his readers will recognize as...Rothian intelligence." --"The New York Times
""Fascinating glimpses of some of the deans of postwar literature [and] a working diagram of the very engine that makes Roth run." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review
"
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"" [Roth] brings out something adamantine and irreducible about each of his interlocutors.... Ring[s] with what his readers will recognize as...Rothian intelligence." -- "The New York Times
"" Fascinating glimpses of some of the deans of postwar literature [and] a working diagram of the very engine that makes Roth run." -- "Los Angeles Times Book Review
"
"Roth manages to tease from his subjects the convictions that fuel their work and the vulnerabilities that make them human.... Yet another example of [his] clarity of purpose and singular intelligence." --"The New York Times Book Review
""[Roth] brings out something adamantine and irreducible about each of his interlocutors.... Ring[s] with what his readers will recognize as...Rothian intelligence." --"The New York Times
""Fascinating glimpses of some of the deans of postwar literature [and] a working diagram of the very engine that makes Roth run." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review
"
A brilliant collection of conversations and essays about writers and writing from Philip Roth, reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0224062298
- ISBN 13 9780224062299
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