02828nam 2200625Ia 450 991079057560332120230803021532.00-8130-4618-10-8130-4508-8(CKB)2550000001113272(EBL)1135937(OCoLC)830164663(SSID)ssj0000834089(PQKBManifestationID)11460250(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834089(PQKBWorkID)10981144(PQKB)11637154(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155651(MiAaPQ)EBC1135937(MdBmJHUP)muse26635(Au-PeEL)EBL1135937(CaPaEBR)ebr10666302(CaONFJC)MIL513137(EXLCZ)99255000000111327220121002d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSamuel Roth[electronic resource] infamous modernist /Jay A. GertzmanGainesville University Press of Floridac20131 online resource (417 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8130-4417-0 1-299-81886-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Publishers and publishingUnited StatesBiographyModernism (Literature)United StatesLiterature, Modern20th centuryBiographyPublishers and publishingModernism (Literature)Literature, Modern070.5092BGertzman Jay A1570903MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790575603321Samuel Roth3869248UNINA