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Samuel Roth

Gertzman, Jay A.

Samuel Roth infamous modernist / [electronic resource] : Jay A. Gertzman. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013. - 1 online resource (400 p.)

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.

9780813045085


Roth, Samuel, 1893-1974 --Biography.


Literature, Modern--20th century--Biography.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.


Electronic books.

Z473.R78 / G47 2013

070.5092 B