LEADER 02828nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910790575603321 005 20230803021532.0 010 $a0-8130-4618-1 010 $a0-8130-4508-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000001113272 035 $a(EBL)1135937 035 $a(OCoLC)830164663 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000834089 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11460250 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834089 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10981144 035 $a(PQKB)11637154 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155651 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1135937 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26635 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1135937 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10666302 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL513137 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001113272 100 $a20121002d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSamuel Roth$b[electronic resource] $einfamous modernist /$fJay A. Gertzman 210 $aGainesville $cUniversity Press of Florida$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (417 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8130-4417-0 311 $a1-299-81886-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1893-1916: 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. 330 $aA biography of Samuel Roth, who was instrumental in challenging literary censorship in the early twentieth century and in bringing modernist texts to the masses. 606 $aPublishers and publishing$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$vBiography 615 0$aPublishers and publishing 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 676 $a070.5092 676 $aB 700 $aGertzman$b Jay A$01570903 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790575603321 996 $aSamuel Roth$93869248 997 $aUNINA