Such an amazing literary architect and so many stunning situations, dialogues and turns of phrase….a colossus

Sir Roth, you is a genius.I loved Indignation so much.

Read this book. I plan to read it again.

Great interview.

Roth is a powerful writer.

This book made a good movie.

Indignation is so savagely good that I had to take a break before reading another Roth novel Roth is the greatest living American novelist I don't think anyone comes close

@sapereaude3748

8 жыл бұрын

+vivascargills1084 Yet--the Nobel Committee refuses to recognize the obvious. Roth is too erotic, too Jewish (they are forced to award Jewish scientists and economists, but they don't want to recognize Jewish novelists. It was tough enough for them to recognize Bellow and Singer. Now, they worry about the Jewish writer's connection to Israel, the country that a globe of anti-Semites wants to marginalize, if not destroy, to demonstrate an acute piety that is more a PR position than a felt reality), too fucking brilliant. The committee's dedication, over 30 years of choosing fiction winners who are second-rate, has become an old glove, and a protective habit.

@pasqualified

6 жыл бұрын

Nobel is worthless... the real treasure is being remembered. It's the duty of those who read him to do so.. I think he will not be forgotten in the long run.

@HomeAtLast501

3 жыл бұрын

Savagely good? Why are fiction readers such poseurs, using such stilted, awkward language?

@HomeAtLast501

3 жыл бұрын

@@sapereaude3748 How the HELL do you know their motives?

@HomeAtLast501

3 жыл бұрын

@@pasqualified Seriously. Any organization that could award Obama the Peace Prize after 1-2 months in office can't in any way be taken seriously. Hell, Obama went on to brag about being good at killing people, to kill thousands of innocent people with his drone program, to keep prosecuting the two wars he promised to end, and to start 5 new wars, and in his acceptance speech he said sometimes you have to commit violence to bring peace.

Thank you to 'kolbester' for this wonderful interview with Philip Roth.

With all due respect to Alice Munro, but Philip Roth was more deserving of the Nobel.

@joedelilo5608

7 жыл бұрын

Liberalviewer1 there have been less deserving than Munro to win it throughout Roth's career

@monicaangelini3324

6 жыл бұрын

Roth is beyond Nobel

Per the Big Mendelson story that Mr. Roth tells here: I recall the actor Bruce Weitz taking part in a scene with a similar content and outcome when he played the part of an undercover police officer in the 1980s TV series HILL STREET BLUES. That said, Mr. Roth knows that a good joke can stand the odd telling, or retelling. Sorry to see he's chosen to retire. Please give it another thought, Mr. Roth!

kiitos

THANK YOU. Terrific interview of a great soul. 27:00---Is Roth's book on the Korea/Vietnam period meant to be relevant to the Iraq War generation? How could it not be? America keeps making the same dumbass imperial mistakes.

Roth is a terrible Liberal. Like most novelists. However, he is an incredible writer. Sabbath's Theatre, The Human Stain, American Pastoral and to a lesser extent I Married A Communist are his best novels. Truly outstanding. The Plot Against America is also good. The other novels he wrote are either extremely depressing or boring. Accusations of misogyny might be justified. He is still a genius.

@berardodigiacomantonio8808

6 ай бұрын

My Life as Man Is a wonderful novel.

It must have been difficult for Roth to have to sit through this interview with a pseudo-intellectual. Speaking in halting tones, and replacing terms like "after death" with "post-mortal", aren't stand-ins for true intellect.

Elvis was drafted in 1958 in order to go to occupied Gahminy.

Back in the days when men's dress shirts still had attractive vertical collars, not this disgusting spread collar crap that they sell guys today.

@rubyparchment5523

3 жыл бұрын

Roth was a manly clotheshorse, to thrilling effect. Right now: am on last pages of Volume 1 of Library of America's Roth series.

@HomeAtLast501

3 жыл бұрын

@@rubyparchment5523 Let us hope that the fashion pendulum swings back in the other direction --- and soon!

Immoderate grief. Oh, please.

Such bad video. Blurry

Sounds like he kind of ripped off "Jacob's Ladder" and "Mulholland Drive" with this book.