A Reluctant Public Intellectual: Philip Roth in the German-speaking Media

Journal
Philip Roth Studies
ISSN
1547-3929
ISSN-Digital
1940-5278
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2014-05-15
Author(s)
DOI
Abstract
Philip Roth is one of the most popular American novelists in German-speaking countries. His novels often reached the top ten of German bestseller listings. In 2009, he received a literary award from the WELT, a German newspaper, and German-speaking journalists ritually lament that he has not yet been awarded the Nobel Prize. I suggest that German, Austrian, and Swiss media not only revere Roth for his literary merits, but that they repeatedly approach him as a public intellectual.
Language
English
Keywords
Philip Roth
public intellectual
Jewish-American literature
politics and literature
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Publisher place
Purdue
Volume
10
Number
1
Start page
77
End page
90
Pages
14
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Subject(s)

cultural studies

Eprints ID
231605
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