Henry Roth (1) (1906–1995)
Auteur de Call It Sleep
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Henry Roth, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Séries
Œuvres de Henry Roth
Signatures: Work in Progress, Number Two 1 exemplaire
Call It Sleep[CALL IT SLEEP][Paperback] 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributeur — 72 exemplaires
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1906-02-08
- Date de décès
- 1995-10-13
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Tysmenitz, Galicia, Austro-Hungary
- Lieu du décès
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Tysmenica, Galicia, Austria (birth | now Ukraine) - Études
- City College of New York
- Professions
- teacher
novelist
short story writer
machinist - Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1965)
- Courte biographie
- Henry Roth was born to a Jewish family in Tysmenitz, Galicia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Ukraine). When he was a small child, he emigrated with his family to the USA, setting in New York City. In 1928, he graduated from City College of New York and moved in with Eda Lou Walton, a poet and English literature instructor at New York University. With her support and encouragement, he wrote his first novel, Call It Sleep. It was published in 1934 to mostly good reviews, but then forgotten; the book underwent a critical reappraisal 30 years later, after it was republished in paperback and became an instant bestseller. Call It Sleep is now considered a masterpiece and a classic Depression-era work. Roth began a second novel, but was afflicted by a deep writer's block that lasted for decades. In 1938, at the artists' colony Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, he met Muriel Parker, a pianist and composer; the couple married the following year and had two sons. The family moved several times as Roth took jobs as varied as machinist, woodsman, schoolteacher, psychiatric attendant in a state mental hospital, raising waterfowl, and Latin and math tutor. In 1968, he and his wife moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. There Roth collaborated with his friend and Italian translator, Mario Materassi, on putting together a collection of short stories and essays, Shifting Landscape: A Composite, 1925–87, published in 1987. Eventually, Roth completed two of the next installments in the projected six-volume work he had been trying to write for 60 years. The first, Mercy of a Rude Stream, was published in 1994; A Diving Rock on the Hudson appeared in 1995, the year of his death. An American Type, based on an unpublished manuscript edited by Willing Davidson, appeared in print in 2010.
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1930s (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 3,067
- Popularité
- #8,322
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 64
- ISBN
- 122
- Langues
- 10
- Favoris
- 8
Celui-ci en est le premier.
En lisant leurs souvenirs de jeunesse à ce Roth et à l'autre, le Philip, un fond commun en ressort : c'est l'aversion des juifs d''avant-guerre envers les goys ... ça ne pouvait que mal finir.
Le petit Henry ne se remettra jamais de son enfance dans un quartier goy entre une mère juive et un père brutal. On le quitte jeune adolescent à la fin de ce premier tome.… (plus d'informations)