The legendary author’s essays and interviews explore how fellow
writers from Milan Kundera to Edna O’Brien are influenced by time,
place, and politics. Writers are often deeply influenced by the time
and place in which they live and write. In Shop Talk, Philip Roth,
winner of a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and numerous other
literary honors, explores the intimate relationship a writer’s
experience has with his or her work. In a series of essays, Roth
recounts his intellectual encounters with writers, discussing with
them the diverse regions from which they hail and pondering the
influence of locale, politics, and history on their work. Featuring
luminaries such as Milan Kundera discussing Czechoslovakia; Primo Levi
talking about Auschwitz; Edna O’Brien reflecting on Ireland; Isaac
Bashevis Singer tackling Warsaw; Aharon Appelfeld on Bukovina; and
Ivan Klíma on Prague, Roth’s conversations touch on the conditions
that inspire great art, with artists as attuned to the subtleties of
their societies as they are the nuances of words. Also including a
portrait of Bernard Malamud, a written exchange with Mary McCarthy
about Roth’s The Counterlife, and the essay “Rereading Saul
Bellow,” Shop Talk is a “fascinating [glimpse] of some of the
deans of postwar literature” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
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ISBN
9780547344898
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (ORM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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