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• W1599055445 abstract "Ross Miller, ed. Philip Roth: Novels and Stories, 1959-1962 and Philip Roth: Novels, 1967-1972. New York: Lib. of Amer., 2005. 960 pp. and 672 pp. $35.00 ea.The appearance of Philip Roth's collected works in the basic black of a Library of America edition is ideally timed and richly deserved-ideally timed because these first two volumes of Roth's collected writing hit the bookstores in September 2005, a month before the traditional announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature. These two volumes are the harbingers of an authorized and uniform edition of Roth's work that is projected to continue until 2013. It could even go longer if Roth, seventy-three this year and scribbling feverishly away at his lectern, persists in publishing novels at the metronomic rate of one every two years, which has been his habit for decades. This is richly deserved because Roth has lived up to anyone's reasonable expectations of being what a literary classic should be: tirelessly prolific, restless, combative, sexy, worldly, ambitious, cunningly reckless, Einstein smart, postmodernist kinky, melancholy in a Sinatra kind of way, twice-divorced, and alienated within tolerable limits. He has retreated from the world, but only as far as Connecticut. And you can bet that he has not given up hope of pissing people off one last time, or two, or three.So here he is in the Library of America edition, the literary equivalent of a tux and tails, an American classic in spite of himself, on the top shelf with those heavyweights of the bare-knuckle era, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, and, yes, his landsmen Saul Bellow and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Black-limo recognition of this kind can incline a writer to self-consciousness, but then it also allows him to thumb his nose at the hordes that had stood in his way earlier. Library of America recognition for Roth is something like knighthood for the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger. Roth is now our Sir Philip and getting more sympathy for the devil than ever he dreamed of in the schoolyards of Newark.Volume 1 contains the novella Goodbye, Columbus, the five stories published with it in 1959 (The Conversion of the Jews, Defender of the Faith, Epstein, Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings, and Eli, the Fanatic), and the supersized novel Letting Go (1962), all 650 roiling pages of it. Volume 2 offers the novels When She Was Good (1967) and Portnoy's Complaint (1969) and the novellas The Breast (1972) and Our Gang (1973). You get a lot of bang for the buck here, and if ever you wanted to read your way through Philip Roth nonstop without scrounging for every last book, here is your chance to get started.Literary careers do not always have shapes, and Roth did not plan his out, but the reader is bound to notice at least two distinct phases in these two volumes: the apprenticeship and the freakout. The apprenticeship stories and novels are the Goodbye, Columbus stories and the novels Letting Go and When She Was Good. Although there is ample social comedy scattered about-particularly in Goodbye, Columbus and the story Epstein, which won Roth a bit of notoriety-Roth's early writing was, in the main, rather monkishly sober. It had Tolstoy or Bust written all over it. Although Roth came to literature with a brazen and precocious talent, he apprenticed himself early on to such high modernist gods as Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Flaubert. The Chicago gloom, the wintry discontent, and depressive half-light of Letting Go made the book sound like a Dostoevskian note from underground as well as something of a time capsule that readers a century later might refer to as a distillation of the psychological angst and erotic discontents of its age: the age of anxiety. Following the lead of Goodbye, Columbus, the wistful and satirical story about a failed romance between a boy from Newark and a princess from Short Hills, it also found Roth mining his own life and those of his friends for the raw material for his fiction. …" @default.
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