Henry Roth's literary reputation rests entirely and securely upon Call It Sleep (1934). The single novel is so emotionally moving and so artistically elegant that it has made Roth an important literar...
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In the following review, Dickstein discusses Roth's Shifting Landscape and his journey of self-discovery.
I had just finished interviewing Henry Roth, the author of Call It Sleep, when as if by...
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In the following review, Kazin discusses Roth's Call It Sleep and asserts that it is a story of David's inner growth.
Call It Sleep is the most profound novel of Jewish life that I have ...
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In the following review, Leader proposes that in Roth's Mercy of a Rude Stream "The author wishes to recreate a world now lost, one defaced by the earlier novel's 'artistic...
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In the following review, Towers praises the absorbing story in Roth's Mercy of a Rude Stream, but complains that the structure is disjointed and the narration of the older Ira is intrusive.
The...
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In the following review, West discusses the confessional and autobiographical nature of Roth's A Diving Rock on the Hudson, pointing out that Roth asserts that the book is a work of fiction.
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In the following review, Gordon discusses Roth's complicated relationship with his Jewishness as expressed in his A Diving Rock on the Hudson.
The circumstances that surround the writing of Hen...
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In the following review, Kermode states that Roth's From Bondage "does what has rarely been done before; it enhances its brilliant youthful original by casting upon it the calmer, contem...
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In the following review, Berman discusses how Roth's From Bondage was changed and how its impact was lessened when crucial scenes concerning incest were cut from the published edition.
Henry Ro...
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In the following interview, Roth discusses his life and his relationship to writing and creative life.
[Bronsen:] I visited Henry Roth on his Farm near Augusta, Maine, and we began to talk. At one poi...
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Henry Roth
