Samuel Roth : infamous modernist / / Jay A. Gertzman
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| Autore: |
Gertzman Jay A
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| Titolo: |
Samuel Roth : infamous modernist / / Jay A. Gertzman
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| Pubblicazione: | Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (417 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 070.5092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Publishers and publishing - United States |
| Modernism (Literature) - United States | |
| Literature, Modern - 20th century | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Samuel Roth |
| ISBN: | 0-8130-4618-1 |
| 0-8130-4508-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809426003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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