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Samuel Roth : infamous modernist / Jay A. Gertzman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gertzman, Jay A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Literature, Modern--20th century--Biography.
- Literature, Modern.
- Roth, Samuel, 1893-1974--Biography.
- Roth, Samuel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A biography of Samuel Roth, who was instrumental in challenging literary censorship in the early twentieth century and in bringing modernist texts to the masses.
- Contents:
- 1893-1916: From a Galician shtetl to Columbia University
- 1917-1925: Prelude to an international protest: a rising, pugnacious man of letters
- 1925-1927: "Damn his impertinence. Bloody crook": Roth publishes Joyce
- 1928-1934: Roth must live: a successful business and its bankruptcy
- 1934: Jews must live: "we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it"
- 1934-1939: A stretch in the federal penitentiary
- 1940-1949: Roth breaks parole, uncovers a Nazi plot, gives "Dame Post Office" fits, and tells his own story in mail-order advertising copy
- 1949-1952: Times Square, Peggy Roth, Southern Gothic, Celine, and Nietzsche
- 1952-1957: The Windsors, Winchell, Kefauver: back to Lewisburg
- 1958-1974: "It had been a long time since someone like you had appeared in the world": Roth fulfills his mission.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4618-1
- 0-8130-4508-8
- OCLC:
- 830164663
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