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Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books

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by Claudia Roth Pierpont


  Jainism

  James, Henry; friendship of Wharton and; influence on Roth’s writing of

  Japan; in Second World War

  Jarrell, Randall

  Jazz Singer, The (film)

  Jerusalem; Demjanjuk trial in; Holocaust memorial in; Wailing Wall in

  Jewboy, The (Roth)

  “Jewish Blues, The” (Roth)

  Jewish Book Council of America

  Jewish Councils

  Jewish National Fund

  “Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis, A” (Roth)

  Jews; cemeteries for; charges of self-hatred among; cultural adjustments to American life of; discrimination against, see anti-Semitism; in England; establishment of homeland in Palestine for (see also Israel); fraternities for; humor of; identity as Americans of; immigrant; in literature; Nazi murder of (see also Holocaust); in Newark, N.J., public schools; in 1950s American suburbs; Nixon and; Orthodox; outrage at Roth’s portrayal of; parental opposition to marriage to Christians of; in psychoanalysis; rage against Gentiles of; religious observances of; in Roth’s fiction, see titles of specific novels and stories; Russian; secular; Sephardic, history of; as writers (see also names of authors and titles of works)

  John Simon Guggenheim Foundation

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines

  Joke, The (Kundera, M.)

  Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (Freud)

  Jolson, Al

  Joplin, Janis

  Joyce, James

  Judt, Tony

  Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)

  Justice, Donald

  Kafka, Franz; Czech writers and legacy of; influence on Roth’s writing of; instructions for destruction of manuscripts of; nieces of; in Roth’s fiction; Roth teaching courses on

  Kafka, Ottla

  Kafka, Valerie

  Kakutani, Michiko

  Kazin, Alfred

  Keats, John

  Kelly, Robert

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Kent, Allegra

  Kenyon Review, The

  Kermode, Frank

  Khan, Prince Aly

  Khoury, Elias

  Kierkegaard, Søren

  Kilgour, French & Stanbury

  King, Stephen

  Kiš, Danilo

  Kissinger, Henry

  Kitaj, R. B.

  Kleinschmidt, Hans

  Klíma, Ivan

  Klímová, Rita

  Klinghoffer, Leon

  Konrád, George

  Korean War

  Kornbluth, Jesse

  Kosinski, Jerzy

  Kramer, Hilton

  Kreutzer Sonata, The (Tolstoy)

  Kundera, Milan

  Kundera, Vera

  Lamarr, Hedy

  LaMotta, Jake

  Laughable Loves (Kundera, M.)

  Lawrence, D. H.

  Leaving a Doll’s House (Bloom, C.); reviews of; Roth’s fictional response to; Updike’s comment on

  le Carré, John

  Lee, Harper

  Lee, Hermione

  Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher

  Leonard, John

  Lessing, Doris

  Let Freedom Ring! (Roth and Brand)

  “Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead” (Kundera, M.)

  Letting Go (Roth); advance for; inspiration for; Jamesian influence on; old Jewish men in; reviews of; sense of moral responsibility in

  Levi, Lucia

  Levi, Primo

  Lewinsky, Monica

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Library of America

  Library of Congress

  Liehm, Antonín and Mira

  Life magazine

  Limelight (movie)

  Limelight and After (Bloom, C.)

  Lindbergh, Charles

  Lindsay, John

  Little Theater (Newark, N.J.)

  Łódź ghetto

  London; anti-Semitism in; Bess and Herman Roth in; Kitaj in; Primo Levi in; in Roth’s fiction; Roth’s life with Claire Bloom in; Saul Bellow in; during Second World War

  London Review of Books

  London Telegraph

  London Times, The; Literary Supplement

  Long Island

  Lonoff, Lenny

  Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe)

  Look magazine

  Los Angeles Times

  Louis, Joe

  Lowenstein, Bob

  Lukacs, John

  Lurie, Alison

  “Lycidas” (Milton)

  Macdonald, Dwight

  Maclean’s magazine

  Madame Bovary (Flaubert)

  Madwoman of Chaillot, The (Giraudoux)

  Mafia

  Magic Mountain, The (Mann, T.)

  Mahler, Gustav

  Mailer, Norman; Gornick’s feminist denunciation of; lack of humor in erotic writing of; Pulitzer Prize awarded to

  Malamud, Bernard

  Malaparte, Curzio

  Manea, Norman

  Manhattan Transfer (Dos Passos)

  Mann, Erika

  Mann, Thomas

  Mario and the Magician (Mann, T.)

  Mars-Jones, Adam

  Martin, Mildred

  Martin, Nan

  Marx Brothers

  Marxism

  Masin, Seymour “Swede”

  Maskenfreiheit

  Matisse, Henri

  Maurer, Bob

  Maurer, Charlotte

  May, Elaine

  McCarthy, Cormac

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McCarthy, Mary

  McGraw, Ali

  Melville, Herman

  Memoirs of a Time of Immaturity (Gombrowicz)

  Menand, Louis

  Men in My Life, The (Gornick)

  Metamorphosis, The (Kafka, F.)

  Metropolitan Life

  Miles, Jack

  Miller, Arthur

  Miller, Henry

  Miller, Ross

  Miłosz, Czesław

  Milton, John

  Mishima, Yukio

  Mitchell, John

  Moby-Dick (Melville)

  Monkey’s Wrench, The (Levi, P.)

  Montefiore, Simon Sebag

  Morrell, Ottoline

  Mossad

  Mother’s Kisses, A (Friedman)

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)

  Mucha, Jiří

  Mudge, Ann

  Munro, Alice

  Musil, Robert

  My Lai massacre

  My Life as a Man (Roth); Gornick’s feminist denunciation of; inspiration for; psychoanalytic influence in; reviews of

  Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer)

  “Name Day Party, The” (Chekhov)

  Nasaw, David

  Nation, The

  National Book Award

  National Book Critics Circle Award

  National Humanities Medal

  National Medal of Arts

  Natural, The (Malamud)

  Navy, U.S.

  Nazis; American sympathizers with; antipodal, mutually excluding lives led by; anti-Semitic propaganda of; murder of Jews by (see also Holocaust); in Roth’s fiction

  Nemesis (Roth)

  New American Review

  Newark (New Jersey); dinner table routines about; House Un-American Activities hearings in; immigrants in; Italians in; Jews move to suburbs from; post-riot; public schools in; Roth’s childhood and adolescence in; Roth’s fiction set in (see also titles of specific novels and stories); Rutgers University branch in; Tumin’s birth in

  New Deal

  New Republic, The

  New School, The

  New York City; apartments in; Claire Bloom in; Eastern European writers in; Jews of; literary world in; Maggie Williams in; medical care in; psychoanalysis in; in Roth’s fiction; Roth’s fortieth birthday party in; sixties in; teaching in

  New Yorker, The; Milan Kundera published in; reviews of Roth’s books in; Roth published in

  New York magazine

  New York Post
/>   New York Review of Books, The

  New York Stories (movie)

  New York Times, The; articles by Roth published in; editorials in; Primo Levi interviewed by Roth for; rabbi’s complaints about Roth’s portrayal of Jews reported by; reviews of Roth’s books in; Roth interviewed by; Roth’s op-ed piece on Nixon rejected by; Tumin’s obituary in

  New York Times Book Review; interview with Roth in; obituary essay on Malamud published in; poll to determine “single best work of American fiction published in the last twenty-five years” conducted in 2006 by; Roiphe’s essay on male writers in

  Nicaragua

  Nice Jewish Boy, The (Roth)

  Nichols, Mike

  9/11 attacks

  Nixon, Richard M.

  Nobel Prize in Literature

  Northwestern University

  “Nose, The” (Gogol)

  Nouvel Observateur, Le

  “Novotny’s Pain” (Roth)

  Oates, Joyce Carol

  Obama, Barack

  Obelisk Press

  O’Brien, Edna

  Observer, The

  Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway)

  Olivier, Laurence

  On a Note of Triumph (Corwin)

  O’Neill, Eugene

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Carlyle)

  Operation Shylock (Roth); inspiration for; Israeli and Palestinian voices in; New York Times interview with Roth on release of; PEN/Faulkner award for; reviews of; Roth’s use of his own name as a character in

  Orchestra Hall (Chicago)

  Orwell, George

  Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Other People’s Houses (Segal)

  Our Gang (Roth)

  Oxford University; Bodleian Library

  Palestine; establishment of Jewish homeland in (see also Israel)

  Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

  Palestinians

  Paris; Roth in

  Paris Review; interview with Roth in

  Partisan Review

  Passer, Ivan

  Patrimony (Roth)

  Patriot Act (2001)

  Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on

  Peerce, Larry

  PEN; Faulkner Award; Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction

  Penguin Books

  Pennsylvania, University of; School of Arts and Sciences

  People magazine

  Perelman, S. J.

  Periodic Table, The (Levi, P.)

  “Philip Roth Reconsidered” (Howe)

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pictures from an Institution (Jarrell)

  Pilar, Rudolf and Luba

  Pinter, Harold

  Plague, The (Camus)

  Playhouse 90 (television program)

  Plimpton, George

  Plot Against America, The (Roth)

  Podhoretz, Norman

  Poland

  Pollard, Jonathan

  Pollock, Jackson

  Poorhouse Fair, The (Updike)

  Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth); balance of tenderness and rage in; as bestseller; cited at National Humanities Medal ceremony; comic abandon of; in Czechoslovakia; dinner table routines as sounding board for; discussed in The Facts; father’s autographed copies of; first-person narrative voice of; follow-up books to; Henry Miller’s influence on; inspiration for; Israel in; Jewish mother; Jewish outrage at; Nixon-Haldeman discussion of; notoriety of; parents in; psychoanalysis in; publication of; reviews of; Roth’s identity as author of; sex in; and sixties counterculture; struggle against ethical imperatives in; twenty-fifth anniversary edition of; in Updike’s memoir

  Portrait of a Lady, The (James)

  postmodernism

  Postwar (Judt)

  Powell, Betty

  Prague; fiction set in; fund established to help writers in; Sproul on trips to; U.S. publication of works by writers in, see Writers from the Other Europe series

  Prague Orgy, The (Roth)

  Pratt Institute

  Prescott, Orville

  Princeton University

  Pritchard, William

  Prix Médicis étranger

  Professor of Desire, The (Roth); Chekhovian influences in; female characters in; first-person narrative voice of; inspiration for; old Jewish men in; reviews of; sex in

  Professor’s House, The (Cather)

  Prokofiev, Sergei

  Protestants (see also Christians; Gentiles)

  Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The

  Proulx, Annie

  Proust, Marcel

  psychoanalysis

  Publishers Weekly

  Pulitzer Prize

  Puritans

  Puzo, Mario

  Pynchon, Thomas

  Raab, Scott

  Rabbit at Rest (Updike)

  Rabbit Is Rich (Updike)

  Rabbit Redux (Updike)

  Radcliffe College

  Raging Bull (movie)

  Rampersad, Arnold

  Random House

  Ravelstein (Bellow, S.)

  Reading Myself and Others (Roth)

  Reagan, Ronald

  Réage, Pauline

  realism; Franz Kafka and

  Remnick, David

  “Report to an Academy, A” (Kafka, F.)

  Republican Party

  revenge, literary

  Revolutionary War

  Rhys, Jean

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  Rich, Frank

  Richardson, Ralph

  Rieff, David

  Right, American

  Rilke, Rainer Maria

  Robinson, Sugar Ray

  Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)

  Rodgers and Hammerstein, score for State Fair

  Rogow, Betty

  Roiphe, Katie

  Rollins, Sonny

  Romania

  Romney, Mitt

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Rosten, Leo

  Roth, Bess Finkel (mother); background of; death of; fictional character based on; grave of; overseas travel of; at Roth’s fortieth birthday party; and Roth’s psychoanalysis; during sons’ childhood and adolescence

  Roth, Herman (father); background of; career of; fictional characters based on; final illness and death of; grave of; overseas travel of; Roth’s conflicts with; at Roth’s fortieth birthday party; during sons’ childhood and adolescence; during Watergate hearings; work ethic of

  Roth, Margaret “Maggie” Martinson Williams (first wife); alimony awarded to; breakup of Roth and; children of; death of; fictional characters based on; marriage of Roth and

  Roth, Philip: affairs of; in army; birthday parties for; birth of; and brother’s death; at Bucknell University; celebrity impersonations by; cemeteries visited by; childhood and adolescence of; Claire Bloom’s relationship with (see also Leaving a Doll’s House); college courses taught by; country house of, see Connecticut, Roth’s country house in; dating; deaths of friends of; divorces Claire Bloom; Eastern European writers aided by; and father’s final illness and death; favorite books of; female characters in the work of; feminist reactions to; friends as pre-publication readers of new works by; friendships; in graduate school at University of Chicago; Halcion-induced breakdown of; health problems of; honored at White House; interviews given by (see also Paris Review, interview with Roth in; Web of Stories); in Israel; Jewish outrage at portrayal of Jews by; joys of non–writing life for; literary influences on, see names of specific authors; in London; long-term girlfriends of, see Mudge, Ann; Sproul, Barbara; and Maggie Williams’s death; marriage of Claire Bloom and; marriage of Maggie Williams and; moral battles in the work of; and mother’s death; music in the life and work of; New York apartments of; New York Times articles by; notoriety of; in Paris; political views of; in Prague; Primo Levi and; psychoanalysis of; research for books by; romance of manhood in the work of; separation from Maggie Williams of; in Southeast Asia; step-children of; suicidal depression of; in Woodstock, N.Y.; works of, Lib
rary of America publication of (see also titles of specific books, dramatic works, essays, and stories); at Yaddo; Yiddish studied by

  Roth, Sanford “Sandy” (brother); artistic aspirations of; childhood and adolescence of; death of; fictional character based on; prostate cancer of; supportiveness of, during brother’s illnesses

  Roth, Sender (grandfather)

  Runyon, Damon

  Rushdie, Salman

  Russia; Communist, see Soviet Union

  Rutgers University

  Sabbath’s Theater (Roth); character development in; female characters in; inspiration for; National Book Award for; the repellent as theme in; reviews of; richness of language in; writing process for

  Said, Edward

  “Sailing to Byzantium” (Yeats)

  St. Louis Jewish Light (newspaper)

  Salinger, J. D.

  Sands Hotel (Las Vegas)

  Saturday Evening Post, The

  Saudková, Vera

  Schindler’s List (movie)

  Schlesinger, Arthur

  Scholem, Gershom

  Schopenhauer, Arthur

  Schulz, Bruno

  Schumann, Robert

  Schwartz, Delmore

  Scofield, Paul

  Second World War; counterhistory of, see Plot Against America, The; England during; fiction set during; Roth’s childhood during; V-E Day

  Segal, Lore

  Seldes, George

  Self-Consciousness (Updike)

  Sephardic Jews

  September 11, 2001 attacks. See 9/11 attacks

  Sereny, Gitta

  Servadio, Gaia

  Sewanee Review, The

  Shakespeare, William

  Shaw, Irwin

  Shawn, William

  Shechner, Mark

  Sheed, Wilfrid

  Shields, Carol

  Shop Talk (Roth)

  Short Hills (New Jersey)

  Shostakovich, Dmitri

  Silver, Ron

  Silvers, Robert

  Simic, Charles

  Simon, Neil

  Simon & Schuster

  Simpson, O. J.

  Sinatra, Frank

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis

  Six-Day War

  sixties, counterculture of; in New York; sexuality in; students and; see also anti-war movement

  S. Klein department store

  Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital (New York)

  Smith, Willard

  solipsism, charges of

  Solotaroff, Ted

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr

  “Some New Jewish Stereotypes” (Roth)

  Sontag, Susan

  Sorin, Gerald

  Soviet Union

  Spencer, Stanley

  “Spirit of ’76” (Updike)

  Sproul, Barbara; fictional character based on; travels with Roth; Woodstock, N.Y., home of Roth and

  Stabiner, Karen

  Stalin, Joseph

  State Department, U.S.

  State Fair (movie), Rodgers and Hammerstein score for

 

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