Samuel Roth [[electronic resource] ] : infamous modernist / / Jay A. Gertzman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452919903321
• Autore: Gertzman Jay A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013
• ISBN: 0-8130-4618-1; 0-8130-4508-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.5092; B
• Soggetti: Publishers and publishing - United States; Modernism (Literature) - United States; Literature, Modern - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.