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“The first deeply researched and sustained biographical treatment of a man who has become recognized as a significant figure in American publishing, transatlantic modernism, and the development of obscenity law. Gertzman’s wide-ranging knowledge of Roth and the startlingly diverse contexts in which he lived and worked makes this a penetrating and unsurpassed portrait not only of Roth but of the country he inhabited.”—Robert Spoo, coeditor of __Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945–1946__ “Gertzman is to be commended for braiding together so many underappreciated strands of twentieth-century literary, legal, and cultural history.”—Paul K. Saint-Amour, editor of __Modernism and Copyright__ “Speaks very importantly and convincingly about American-Jewish identity, censorship, modern publishing, and twentieth-century literature. But equally important is the story the book tells about an enigma—the puzzling, contradictory, and often appealing figure of Samuel Roth, whose torturous and fascinating trail Gertzman chronicles with wit and insight.”—Mary Dearborn, author of __The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller__ Samuel Roth was notorious for being a poet, a porno

Who reads Samuel Roth : infamous modernist?

Author

Jay A. Gertzman

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813044170

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Literary Fiction