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Henry Roth (1) (1906–1995)

Autor/a de Call It Sleep

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11+ obres 3,052 Membres 63 Ressenyes 8 preferits

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Obres de Henry Roth

Call It Sleep (1934) 2,091 exemplars
A Diving Rock on the Hudson (1995) 162 exemplars
From Bondage (1996) 138 exemplars
Requiem for Harlem (1998) 109 exemplars
Shifting Landscape (1987) 94 exemplars
An American Type (2010) 70 exemplars
Nature's first green (1979) 2 exemplars

Obres associades

Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex (1999) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
A golden treasury of Jewish literature (1937) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
The old East Side, an anthology (1969) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1967 (1967) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1906-02-08
Data de defunció
1995-10-13
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Tysmenitz, Galicia, Austro-Hungary
Lloc de defunció
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Llocs de residència
New York, New York, USA
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Tysmenica, Galicia, Austria (birth | now Ukraine)
Educació
City College of New York
Professions
teacher
novelist
short story writer
machinist
Premis i honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1965)
Biografia breu
Henry Roth was born to a Jewish family in Tysmenitz, Galicia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Ukraine). When he was a small child, he emigrated with his family to the USA, setting in New York City. In 1928, he graduated from City College of New York and moved in with Eda Lou Walton, a poet and English literature instructor at New York University. With her support and encouragement, he wrote his first novel, Call It Sleep. It was published in 1934 to mostly good reviews, but then forgotten; the book underwent a critical reappraisal 30 years later, after it was republished in paperback and became an instant bestseller. Call It Sleep is now considered a masterpiece and a classic Depression-era work. Roth began a second novel, but was afflicted by a deep writer's block that lasted for decades. In 1938, at the artists' colony Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, he met Muriel Parker, a pianist and composer; the couple married the following year and had two sons. The family moved several times as Roth took jobs as varied as machinist, woodsman, schoolteacher, psychiatric attendant in a state mental hospital, raising waterfowl, and Latin and math tutor. In 1968, he and his wife moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. There Roth collaborated with his friend and Italian translator, Mario Materassi, on putting together a collection of short stories and essays, Shifting Landscape: A Composite, 1925–87, published in 1987. Eventually, Roth completed two of the next installments in the projected six-volume work he had been trying to write for 60 years. The first, Mercy of a Rude Stream, was published in 1994; A Diving Rock on the Hudson appeared in 1995, the year of his death. An American Type, based on an unpublished manuscript edited by Willing Davidson, appeared in print in 2010.

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I enjoyed this book though I did feel the length somewhere around past page 200. I picked this one up and read it because Fran Lebowitz recommended it on that Scorsese HBO documentary. Besides the fact that I frankly hate her writing, I do like hearing her talk, so I decided to check out the recommendation. I was not disappointed the book did hook me immediately. However, the street pidgin started to wear on me somewhere around after page number two hundred as well. Other than that, I liked it and am glad I read it. I would recommend this to a reader who's looking for something substantial to read, this is not light reading.… (més)
 
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Ranjr | Hi ha 38 ressenyes més | Jul 13, 2023 |
"La narrativa de un judío proletario", J. M. Guelbenzu, El País 18.11.1990: https://elpais.com/diario/1990/11/18/cultura/658882805_850215.html
 
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Albertos | Hi ha 38 ressenyes més | Jun 13, 2021 |
 
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bederson | Hi ha 38 ressenyes més | Dec 17, 2020 |
Some where in all my moves have lost this book, much to my regret. The story had a profounc impact on me at the time I read it. The social issues presented and those of the middle 60s, when I read it, galvanized my understanding of and importance of the social issues of both times. It was a book and story I dearly loved and miss not being in my library.
 
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can44okie | Hi ha 38 ressenyes més | Aug 28, 2020 |

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Obres
11
També de
7
Membres
3,052
Popularitat
#8,366
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
63
ISBN
121
Llengües
9
Preferit
8

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