Mark Sarvas’ Summer of Roth
By Tom Teicholz at 28 July, 2008, 5:02 pm
Over at the elegant Variation, Mark Sarvas has declared this his “Summer of Roth”, where he’s catching up on his Roth, prior to reviewing the forthcoming “Indidgniation” from Houghton Mifflin — and as he notes on his blogs I also took on a summer Roth film project for my last column. He’s also giving away a stack of Roth titles so check it out.
This sent me to survey what of Roth’s I haven’t read. It’s funny –when I look at some of the titles I’m no longer sure- I think I never read “When she was good” I don’t think I read the “Great American Novel” or “My Life as a man.” Pretty much everything else I’ve read and do recall. I must have read Portnoy when it came out, but I think I began to read Roth in earnest with The Ghost Writer in 1979 — perhaps in the New Yorker and then worked my way forward until the Counterlife and then back some, which explains my gap for the early 1970s work and the very early sixties Roth.
I’ve been hearing mixed things about Indignation from my correspondents. I’ll let you know what I think later in the summer.
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