The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

Name: The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Philip Roth
ISBN: 9780099520962

Philip Roth

04/10/2007
Vintage

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography par Philip Roth

Résumé

How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality? What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake? In The Facts - Philip Roth's idiosyncratic autobiography - we find out. Focusing on five episodes in his life, Roth gives a portrait of his secure city childhood in Newark, through to his first marriage, clashes with the Jewish establishment over Goodbye, Columbus and his writing of Portnoy's Complaint. In true Rothian style, his fictional self Nathan Zuckerman is allowed the final, coruscating word of reply.