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Philip Roth

Also known as Philip Milton Roth

American novelist (1933–2018)

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Philip Roth was an American novelist who lived from 1933 to 2018 and is considered one of the most important literary figures of his era. His works explored themes of identity, sexuality, and the American experience, earning him a major place in twentieth-century literature.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1933
Died: 2018
Works: 365

Top works

Sabbaths teater
Mivtsaʻ Shailoḳ
Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
ha-Teʾaṭron shel Miḳi Shabat
Amerikanskaya pastoral

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1933-03-19
Active to: 2018-05-22

has german audiobooks

Discography

Der Menschliche Makel2003

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Listeners: 684
Total plays: 13,920

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Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, and has since become one of the most honored authors of his generation: Roth's books have twice been awarded the National Book Award, twice the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, which featured his best known character, Nathan Zuckerman, the subject of many other of Roth's novels. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Roth">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 67,700x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,961x
Ordered mesoporous molecular sieves synthesized by a liquid-crystal template mechanism
· 1992 · cited 14,884x
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,620x

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Quotes

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
“When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it.”
“To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.”
“This indictment is a kind of fever that flares up from time to time. It flared up after "Defender of the Faith," again after "Goodbye Columbus," and understandably it went way up — to about 107 — after "Portnoy's Complaint." Now there's just a low-grade fever running, nothing to worry about.”
“I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.”
“I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you — it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Philip Milton Roth (/rɒθ/; March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.

Roth is one of the most honored American writers of his generation. He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in Prague. In 2005, the Library of America began publishing his complete works, making him the second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty. Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along with Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. James Wood wrote: "More than any other post-war American writer, Roth wrote the self—the self was examined, cajoled, lampooned, fictionalized, ghosted, exalted, disgraced but above all constituted by and in writing. Maybe you have to go back to the very different Henry James to find an American novelist so purely a bundle of words, so restlessly and absolutely committed to the investigation and construction of life through language... He would not cease from exploration; he could not cease, and the varieties of fiction existed for him to explore the varieties of experience".

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