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020 _a9780813045085
020 _z9780813044170 (alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aZ473.R78
_bG47 2013
082 0 0 _a070.5092
_aB
_223
100 1 _aGertzman, Jay A.
245 1 0 _aSamuel Roth
_h[electronic resource] :
_binfamous modernist /
_cJay A. Gertzman.
260 _aGainesville :
_bUniversity Press of Florida,
_cc2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (400 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _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.
520 _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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aRoth, Samuel,
_d1893-1974
_vBiography.
650 0 _aLiterature, Modern
_y20th century
_vBiography.
650 0 _aModernism (Literature)
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPublishers and publishing
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813045085/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c32251
_d32251