Sunday, March 01, 2009

Roth - Reconsidered

Will he?

Was there ever a more gloomy (modern) meditation on love than Phillip Roth's Professor of Desire? I read it earlier in the year - and several of its (dark) passages remain with me. Chief among them:

"I have no talent, you see, I have no talent and...and lots of vanity."

I wish that he'd win the Nobel.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous6:46 PM

    Not a chance: Too American, too Jewish, too great a writer, too old.

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