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效芯胁械褕泻芯褌芯 锌械褌薪芯
"效芯胁械褕泻芯褌芯 锌械褌薪芯鈥� 薪邪 肖懈谢懈锌 袪芯褌, 械写懈薪 芯褌 薪邪泄-胁锌械褔邪褌谢褟胁邪褖懈褌械 邪屑械褉懈泻邪薪褋泻懈 褉芯屑邪薪懈褋褌懈, 褋锌械褔械谢懈谢 薪邪谐褉邪写邪褌邪 袩褍谢懈褑褗褉 (1998 谐.), 褉邪蟹泻邪蟹胁邪 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟褌邪 薪邪 蟹邪褋褌邪褉褟胁邪褖懈褟 锌褉芯褎械褋芯褉 锌芯 泻谢邪褋懈褔械褋泻邪 褎懈谢芯谢芯谐懈褟 袣芯谢屑邪薪 小懈谢泻, 泻芯泄褌芯 斜懈胁邪 锌褉懈薪褍写械薪 写邪 褋械 锌械薪褋懈芯薪懈褉邪, 泻芯谐邪褌芯 泻芯谢械谐懈褌械 屑褍 蟹邪褟胁褟胁邪褌, 褔械 械 褉邪褋懈褋褌. 笑褟谢邪褌邪 懈褋褌懈薪邪 蟹邪 锌褉械褋褌褗锌谢械薪懈械褌芯 薪邪 小懈谢泻 懈 蟹邪 褋邪屑邪褌邪 屑褍 懈薪泻褉懈屑懈薪邪褑懈褟, 泻邪泻褌芯 懈 薪械谐芯胁邪褌邪 褋褌褉褟褋泻邪褖邪 褌邪泄薪邪, 泻芯褟褌芯 械 芯褋褌邪薪邪谢邪 褋泻褉懈褌邪 芯褌 薪械谐芯胁芯褌芯 褋械屑械泄褋褌胁芯 胁 锌褉芯写褗谢卸械薪懈械 薪邪 锌械褌写械褋械褌 谐芯写懈薪懈, 斜懈胁邪褌 褉邪蟹泻褉懈褌懈 锌褉械蟹 薪邪褉邪褌懈胁邪 薪邪 薪械谐芯胁懈褟 褋褗褋械写 懈 薪械谐芯胁芯 邪谢褌械褉 械谐芯 鈥� 袧邪褌邪薪 笑褍泻械褉屑邪薪. 孝芯泄 褉邪蟹锌谢懈褌邪 屑懈褋褌械褉懈褟褌邪 薪邪 褋懈谢薪邪褌邪 谢懈褔薪芯褋褌 薪邪 锌褉芯褎械褋芯褉邪. 袦褉邪褔械薪 褉芯屑邪薪, 懈蟹锌褗谢薪械薪 褋褗褋 褋褌褉邪褏 懈 褟褉芯褋褌, 泻芯泄褌芯 屑芯卸械 写邪 褋械 褔械褌械 械写薪芯胁褉械屑械薪薪芯 泻邪褌芯 谐褉褗褑泻邪 褌褉邪谐械写懈褟 懈 泻邪褌芯 蟹邪写褗谢斜芯褔械薪 邪薪邪谢懈蟹 薪邪 芯斜褖械褋褌胁械薪邪褌邪 懈 锌芯谢懈褌懈褔械褋泻邪褌邪 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟 薪邪 褋褗胁褉械屑械薪薪邪 袗屑械褉懈泻邪.
袟邪 锌褉械胁芯写邪 薪邪 "效芯胁械褕泻芯褌芯 锌械褌薪芯" 袧邪写械卸写邪 袪邪写褍谢芯胁邪 锌芯谢褍褔懈 薪邪谐褉邪写邪褌邪 "袣褉褗褋褌邪薪 袛褟薪泻芯胁" (2009 谐.).
袟邪 锌褉械胁芯写邪 薪邪 "效芯胁械褕泻芯褌芯 锌械褌薪芯" 袧邪写械卸写邪 袪邪写褍谢芯胁邪 锌芯谢褍褔懈 薪邪谐褉邪写邪褌邪 "袣褉褗褋褌邪薪 袛褟薪泻芯胁" (2009 谐.).
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Philip Roth
301听books7,118听followersPhilip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction鈥攐ften set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey鈥攊s known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation. He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 2005, the Library of America began publishing his complete works, making him the second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty. Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along with Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in Prague.
Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation. He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 2005, the Library of America began publishing his complete works, making him the second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty. Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along with Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in Prague.
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October 13, 2019
Here's what I know: if a book features some old dude fucking some younger lady, check the author's age. 100% of the time, he's the same age as the old dude.
The younger woman will be vulnerable. She will be attracted to the older man's security and wisdom. There is a power imbalance, and it's basically the same thing as when Tarzan saves Jane from the lion. It's embarrassing, immature wish-fulfillment. And even when it's written very well, it's boring.
This book is occasionally written very well, but it also has the young lady dancing naked for like 20 pages while she babbles about free love. "Oh, I see you, Coleman. I could give you away my whole life and still have you. Just by dancing." Good luck getting through that bullshit. It suuuucks.
And you've heard this story before. Old guys complain that no one wants to read old guy authors. It's not because we're "politically correct." It's because old men can't shut up about their penises, and it's boring. The entire canon, as it was agreed on at some point by a bunch of old guys and their boring penises, is full of stories like this.
Coleman Silk, in The Human Stain, is one of those old guys. He's the worst kind of college professor: the kind who tells you how to read a book. "Fossilized pedagogy," as a character we're not supposed to agree with calls it. Fuck you, it's my fucking book, I'll decide how to read it. If I decide to take "a feminist perspective on Euripides," then that's what happens. Euripides can take care of himself.
Silk is also of African-American descent; he's been "passing" as white his entire life. Ironically, he's disgraced by an unfortunately timed use of the word "spook." This is the one-sentence plot of the book: guy accused of racism is secretly black. It sounds interesting, but the problem is that Philip Roth thinks it's a metaphor for himself.
He thinks it's a metaphor because he keeps getting accused of being an asshole. All his life, people have called Philip Roth all sorts of names. Misogynist, even anti-Semite. (Roth is Jewish.) He keeps getting accused of believing what his characters say. It's not me, "The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection," he insists, "but in the plight he has invented for his characters."
Well, quite. The plight he has invented here is a young lady's vagina. Of course Philip Roth isn't Coleman Silk. He's his pimp.
The younger woman will be vulnerable. She will be attracted to the older man's security and wisdom. There is a power imbalance, and it's basically the same thing as when Tarzan saves Jane from the lion. It's embarrassing, immature wish-fulfillment. And even when it's written very well, it's boring.
This book is occasionally written very well, but it also has the young lady dancing naked for like 20 pages while she babbles about free love. "Oh, I see you, Coleman. I could give you away my whole life and still have you. Just by dancing." Good luck getting through that bullshit. It suuuucks.
And you've heard this story before. Old guys complain that no one wants to read old guy authors. It's not because we're "politically correct." It's because old men can't shut up about their penises, and it's boring. The entire canon, as it was agreed on at some point by a bunch of old guys and their boring penises, is full of stories like this.
Coleman Silk, in The Human Stain, is one of those old guys. He's the worst kind of college professor: the kind who tells you how to read a book. "Fossilized pedagogy," as a character we're not supposed to agree with calls it. Fuck you, it's my fucking book, I'll decide how to read it. If I decide to take "a feminist perspective on Euripides," then that's what happens. Euripides can take care of himself.
Silk is also of African-American descent; he's been "passing" as white his entire life. Ironically, he's disgraced by an unfortunately timed use of the word "spook." This is the one-sentence plot of the book: guy accused of racism is secretly black. It sounds interesting, but the problem is that Philip Roth thinks it's a metaphor for himself.
He thinks it's a metaphor because he keeps getting accused of being an asshole. All his life, people have called Philip Roth all sorts of names. Misogynist, even anti-Semite. (Roth is Jewish.) He keeps getting accused of believing what his characters say. It's not me, "The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection," he insists, "but in the plight he has invented for his characters."
Well, quite. The plight he has invented here is a young lady's vagina. Of course Philip Roth isn't Coleman Silk. He's his pimp.
May 24, 2018
鈥滱ll he鈥檇 ever wanted, from earliest childhood on, as to be free: not black, not even white--just on his own and free. He meant no insult to no one by his choice, nor was he trying to irritate anyone whom he took to be his superior, nor was he staging some sort of protest against his race or hers. He recognized that to conventional people for whom everything was ready-made and rigidly unalterable what he was doing would never look correct. But to dare to be nothing more than correct had never been his aim. The objective was for his fate to be determined not by the ignorant, hate-filled intentions of a hostile world but, to whatever degree humanly possible, by his own resolve. Why accept a life on any other terms?鈥�
Coleman Silk went into the Navy as a Caucasian because his pigment allowed him to do so. After a perceptive whore (they are bona fide experts on the male anatomy) in a brothel noticed something about his physique that gave him away as black he was hurled from the establishment. His girlfriend in college who thought he was white met his parents only to learn differently. She, after a moment of hysterics, dumped him. It wasn鈥檛 hard to understand that life provided more opportunities if the world perceived him as white. The timely death of his father, who would have put a kibosh on the whole thing, gave him the freedom to choose. His mother, his brother, and his sister were simply people that had to be carefully cut out of his life.
鈥漎ou don鈥檛 have to murder your father. The world will do that for you. There are plenty of forces out to get your father. The world will take care of him, as it had indeed taken care of Mr. Silk.鈥�
Silk married and landed a job at Athena College. He advanced to the position of Dean of Faculty. He was respected, but as happens with most successful people he made enemies. He also along the way had four kids which is four times that he was sitting in a waiting room offering up prayers to whatever deity would hear them with his fingers, toes, and everything else crossed hoping the baby would be...white.
He dodged every bullet, but as some wise man said there is always a bullet with your name on it. Maybe it was just that he was old and didn鈥檛 move as fast as he used to, but the bullet that caught him and cost him his job was bordering on ridiculous. Where was the man that intimidated his kids with words?
鈥漈he father who never lost his temper. The father who had another way to beating you down. With words. With speech. With what he called 鈥榯he language of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dickens.鈥� With the English language that no one could ever take away from you and that Mr. Silk richly sounded, always with great fullness and clarity and bravado, as though even in ordinary conversation he were reciting Marc Antony鈥檚 speech over the body of Caesar.鈥�
I don鈥檛 think he took it seriously. How could anyone? He was calling roll call for a class and noticed that two people were gone again and had been gone since the beginning of the quarter. 鈥滵oes anyone know these people? Do they exist or are they spooks?鈥�
They were both black students.
Silk is charged with racism and dismissed.
I鈥檝e never really understood the derogatory connotations of using the word Spook in regard to a black person. Wouldn鈥檛 it make more sense for black people to call white people spooks? I believe the term came into usage as a way to scare white children (a ghost that would get them) who had never seen a black person. Regardless, it does exist and any reasonable well educated person knows the word as a derogatory term when referring to people of color. The problem with this charge of racism is intent. If Silk had known the students were black would he have used the term? To me it was just a moment of levity out of frustration about students that weren鈥檛 attending class.
The problem is when your life is words you must select them carefully.
The irony of course is that he can鈥檛 reveal his most important secret even for the defense of his career. Although that does beg the question can鈥檛 a black person make a racist comment against another black person? It can get rather confusion about who is capable of being guilty of what especially when race is indeterminate.
Silk鈥檚 wife dies and he believes the scandal killed her. He goes off the rails, accusing practically everyone he knows as being part of a grand conspiracy against him. I sympathize because most of the time I feel the same way, but I know they will slap a strait jacket on me and throw me into the nearest rubber room if I give them proper opportunity.
He actually finds a much more fun way to put the final nail in the coffin of his reputation. He (seventy-two) starts having sex with a thirty-four year old, illiterate janitor, and part time milk maid at the local dairy. He requires the help of the 鈥渕iracle drug of the 20th century鈥�.
鈥漈hanks to Viagra I鈥檝e come to understand Zeus鈥檚 amorous transformations. That鈥檚 what they should have called Viagra. They should have called it Zeus.鈥�
Silk is falling in love with Faunia, but she sets him straight.
鈥滺e鈥檇 said to her, 鈥楾his is more than sex,鈥� and flatly she replied, 鈥� no, it鈥檚 not. You just forgot what sex is. This is sex. All by itself. Don鈥檛 fuck it up by pretending it鈥檚 something else.鈥欌€�
All is going well, well that鈥檚 not true. His kids are not speaking to him and he is receiving rebuking letters from his former colleagues, most by the way who he had hired as Dean of Faculty.
His biggest problem is Fauna鈥檚 ex-husband, Les Farley, a Vietnam vet who is as stable as nitroglycerin. He is less than thrilled that his ex-wife is blowing a seventy-two year old man. The war warped him in a way that can never be planed straight. After the government trained him to be a killer and allowed him to embrace all his worst impulses by giving him the authority to shoot anything that moves with a machine gun from a helicopter, they gave him two hundred dollars and a pat on the back for his service to his country. See ya Les. Good luck back in the real world.
Back in the real world he can鈥檛 eat at a Chinese restaurant without wanting to kill the waiter.
This story is set against the backdrop of the Clinton impeachment and Roth is able to worm into the text the opinions of various people about Slick Willie and Monica Lewinsky. Silk鈥檚 own perceived indiscretion becomes magnified for the community already reeling from a President who nearly went down because the Essence of Bill was discovered on a navy blue dress. At thirty-four Fauna had been around the block a few times. For anyone to think that Silk was taking advantage of her was ludicrous. At what age does someone pass over the barrier of being able to be taken advantage of by someone older than themselves? Aren鈥檛 people close in age as capable of taking advantage (whatever that entails) as someone twenty, thirty, forty years older? There are so many great discussion points in this book. You might even find the needle has moved on something you think of as a core belief. I'm always questioning why I believe something and books like this put hockey puck ideas in my mind that bounce, carom, and sometimes hit the net proving that nothing is as firm a belief as I think it is.
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Coleman Silk went into the Navy as a Caucasian because his pigment allowed him to do so. After a perceptive whore (they are bona fide experts on the male anatomy) in a brothel noticed something about his physique that gave him away as black he was hurled from the establishment. His girlfriend in college who thought he was white met his parents only to learn differently. She, after a moment of hysterics, dumped him. It wasn鈥檛 hard to understand that life provided more opportunities if the world perceived him as white. The timely death of his father, who would have put a kibosh on the whole thing, gave him the freedom to choose. His mother, his brother, and his sister were simply people that had to be carefully cut out of his life.
鈥漎ou don鈥檛 have to murder your father. The world will do that for you. There are plenty of forces out to get your father. The world will take care of him, as it had indeed taken care of Mr. Silk.鈥�
Silk married and landed a job at Athena College. He advanced to the position of Dean of Faculty. He was respected, but as happens with most successful people he made enemies. He also along the way had four kids which is four times that he was sitting in a waiting room offering up prayers to whatever deity would hear them with his fingers, toes, and everything else crossed hoping the baby would be...white.
He dodged every bullet, but as some wise man said there is always a bullet with your name on it. Maybe it was just that he was old and didn鈥檛 move as fast as he used to, but the bullet that caught him and cost him his job was bordering on ridiculous. Where was the man that intimidated his kids with words?
鈥漈he father who never lost his temper. The father who had another way to beating you down. With words. With speech. With what he called 鈥榯he language of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dickens.鈥� With the English language that no one could ever take away from you and that Mr. Silk richly sounded, always with great fullness and clarity and bravado, as though even in ordinary conversation he were reciting Marc Antony鈥檚 speech over the body of Caesar.鈥�
I don鈥檛 think he took it seriously. How could anyone? He was calling roll call for a class and noticed that two people were gone again and had been gone since the beginning of the quarter. 鈥滵oes anyone know these people? Do they exist or are they spooks?鈥�
They were both black students.
Silk is charged with racism and dismissed.
I鈥檝e never really understood the derogatory connotations of using the word Spook in regard to a black person. Wouldn鈥檛 it make more sense for black people to call white people spooks? I believe the term came into usage as a way to scare white children (a ghost that would get them) who had never seen a black person. Regardless, it does exist and any reasonable well educated person knows the word as a derogatory term when referring to people of color. The problem with this charge of racism is intent. If Silk had known the students were black would he have used the term? To me it was just a moment of levity out of frustration about students that weren鈥檛 attending class.
The problem is when your life is words you must select them carefully.
The irony of course is that he can鈥檛 reveal his most important secret even for the defense of his career. Although that does beg the question can鈥檛 a black person make a racist comment against another black person? It can get rather confusion about who is capable of being guilty of what especially when race is indeterminate.
Silk鈥檚 wife dies and he believes the scandal killed her. He goes off the rails, accusing practically everyone he knows as being part of a grand conspiracy against him. I sympathize because most of the time I feel the same way, but I know they will slap a strait jacket on me and throw me into the nearest rubber room if I give them proper opportunity.
He actually finds a much more fun way to put the final nail in the coffin of his reputation. He (seventy-two) starts having sex with a thirty-four year old, illiterate janitor, and part time milk maid at the local dairy. He requires the help of the 鈥渕iracle drug of the 20th century鈥�.
鈥漈hanks to Viagra I鈥檝e come to understand Zeus鈥檚 amorous transformations. That鈥檚 what they should have called Viagra. They should have called it Zeus.鈥�
Silk is falling in love with Faunia, but she sets him straight.
鈥滺e鈥檇 said to her, 鈥楾his is more than sex,鈥� and flatly she replied, 鈥� no, it鈥檚 not. You just forgot what sex is. This is sex. All by itself. Don鈥檛 fuck it up by pretending it鈥檚 something else.鈥欌€�
All is going well, well that鈥檚 not true. His kids are not speaking to him and he is receiving rebuking letters from his former colleagues, most by the way who he had hired as Dean of Faculty.
His biggest problem is Fauna鈥檚 ex-husband, Les Farley, a Vietnam vet who is as stable as nitroglycerin. He is less than thrilled that his ex-wife is blowing a seventy-two year old man. The war warped him in a way that can never be planed straight. After the government trained him to be a killer and allowed him to embrace all his worst impulses by giving him the authority to shoot anything that moves with a machine gun from a helicopter, they gave him two hundred dollars and a pat on the back for his service to his country. See ya Les. Good luck back in the real world.
Back in the real world he can鈥檛 eat at a Chinese restaurant without wanting to kill the waiter.
This story is set against the backdrop of the Clinton impeachment and Roth is able to worm into the text the opinions of various people about Slick Willie and Monica Lewinsky. Silk鈥檚 own perceived indiscretion becomes magnified for the community already reeling from a President who nearly went down because the Essence of Bill was discovered on a navy blue dress. At thirty-four Fauna had been around the block a few times. For anyone to think that Silk was taking advantage of her was ludicrous. At what age does someone pass over the barrier of being able to be taken advantage of by someone older than themselves? Aren鈥檛 people close in age as capable of taking advantage (whatever that entails) as someone twenty, thirty, forty years older? There are so many great discussion points in this book. You might even find the needle has moved on something you think of as a core belief. I'm always questioning why I believe something and books like this put hockey puck ideas in my mind that bounce, carom, and sometimes hit the net proving that nothing is as firm a belief as I think it is.
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July 8, 2024
Intricate and Lingering
This story reminds me of the time my law school got sued. Details may be slightly off because this was a hot minute ago.
After my first year in law school, my grades were sufficient to transfer to any law school of my choosing. However, my current school gave out a sheet of paper with their employment statistics: average employment rate of 80% and an average starting salary of $65,000.
Thinking that was workable, I stuck to my current path, graduating in the top 10% of my class and passing the Bar on the first try.
I sent out 2,000 resumes, and I didn鈥檛 get a single offer of full-time employment.
Then, I heard about the lawsuit.
Apparently, everything on that sheet of paper was a lie. If a graduate was working a non-legal job, that counted as employed. That 80% employment statistic included legal graduates who were working at Starbucks, pushing carts at Wal-Mart, or working part-time as substitute teachers. The true employment rate was closer to 30%.
That $65,000 average starting salary? Again. Lies. The school only considered the two or three people who wrote down their salaries.
How did the court case, our good old legal system, the beacon of justice, turn out?
Well, the law school made representations. These representations were false. Yes, the Court found that the school intentionally misled or lied. Students relied on the misrepresentations, and there were damages.
Win, right?
Wrong.
The students were denied relief.
But why?
Oh! Now for the good part!
The Court found that the students鈥� reliance was not reasonable. Yes, the student who entered law school at the tender age of 21, the na茂ve, destitute law student was supposed to know that the school was lying. I mean students have unfettered access to alumni, can call up every single person in their free time, ask about career prospects and current earnings. The alumni who are certainly not disgruntled for having been cheated will always cheerfully answer promptly and honestly. The unemployed alumni aren鈥檛 exactly sleeping on the campus steps.
And to top it all off鈥�.student loans are not generally dischargeable in bankruptcy. And this was the year before income-based repayment plans.
The entire reason that I went to law school was that I HAD to earn a living wage. My parents could not support me, and I didn鈥檛 have the privilege of shaking my fist at the injustice. I had to pivot and fast. I ended up taking some accounting classes and becoming a CPA. While I was able to put food on the table, I spent the next decade crippled by student loans based on lies.
In The Human Stain, it is the summer of 1998, and Coleman Silk is the Dean at a small college when a false allegation of racism rocks his world.
Coleman has been dealt a blow by the world, an injustice. Now, most books would either fade to black, paint the protagonist in a sympathetic light (Oliver Twist 鈥� 鈥榦h the poor starving orphan鈥�), or go down the classic vengeance plot (The Count of Monte Cristo). But Roth, refreshingly, takes readers in an entirely different direction.
鈥淗e remained unable to gauge what was and wasn鈥檛 in his long-term interest.鈥�鈥� The Human Stain
Something bad happened to Coleman, but should he make it his entire life? Is he served by being bitter and shaking his fist at the injustice?
The Human Stain has many layers, and there is a splendid feast for consideration, a great deal to consider. This book is a classic 鈥� a book you will get something new upon every reread. There is a lot about identity, thrown in the mix with complex characters asking deep questions. One of my favorite characters is Professor Delphine Roux.
鈥淵ou really think that this is important stuff in the world? It鈥檚 not that important. It鈥檚 not important at all.鈥� - The Human Stain
Interestingly, Philip Roth got into it with over the page for The Human Stain.Someone with a keyboard A Wikipedia contributor asserted that Roth based the Coleman Silk character off of Anatole Broyard.
However, Roth himself denied this. He said that he barely knew Broyard, and Coleman was based off of a friend of his who was teaching at Princeton in 1985.
Wikipedia told Roth, he 鈥渨as not a credible source.鈥�
Now, Roth, are you going to shake your fist at the injustice or do something about it? LOL!
The Green Light at the End of the Dock (How much I spent):
Hardcover Text 鈥� $25.75 from eBay (First edition, First print)
Softcover Text 鈥� $11.94 from Blackwell鈥檚
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This story reminds me of the time my law school got sued. Details may be slightly off because this was a hot minute ago.
After my first year in law school, my grades were sufficient to transfer to any law school of my choosing. However, my current school gave out a sheet of paper with their employment statistics: average employment rate of 80% and an average starting salary of $65,000.
Thinking that was workable, I stuck to my current path, graduating in the top 10% of my class and passing the Bar on the first try.
I sent out 2,000 resumes, and I didn鈥檛 get a single offer of full-time employment.
Then, I heard about the lawsuit.
Apparently, everything on that sheet of paper was a lie. If a graduate was working a non-legal job, that counted as employed. That 80% employment statistic included legal graduates who were working at Starbucks, pushing carts at Wal-Mart, or working part-time as substitute teachers. The true employment rate was closer to 30%.
That $65,000 average starting salary? Again. Lies. The school only considered the two or three people who wrote down their salaries.
How did the court case, our good old legal system, the beacon of justice, turn out?
Well, the law school made representations. These representations were false. Yes, the Court found that the school intentionally misled or lied. Students relied on the misrepresentations, and there were damages.
Win, right?
Wrong.
The students were denied relief.
But why?
Oh! Now for the good part!
The Court found that the students鈥� reliance was not reasonable. Yes, the student who entered law school at the tender age of 21, the na茂ve, destitute law student was supposed to know that the school was lying. I mean students have unfettered access to alumni, can call up every single person in their free time, ask about career prospects and current earnings. The alumni who are certainly not disgruntled for having been cheated will always cheerfully answer promptly and honestly. The unemployed alumni aren鈥檛 exactly sleeping on the campus steps.
And to top it all off鈥�.student loans are not generally dischargeable in bankruptcy. And this was the year before income-based repayment plans.
The entire reason that I went to law school was that I HAD to earn a living wage. My parents could not support me, and I didn鈥檛 have the privilege of shaking my fist at the injustice. I had to pivot and fast. I ended up taking some accounting classes and becoming a CPA. While I was able to put food on the table, I spent the next decade crippled by student loans based on lies.
In The Human Stain, it is the summer of 1998, and Coleman Silk is the Dean at a small college when a false allegation of racism rocks his world.
Coleman has been dealt a blow by the world, an injustice. Now, most books would either fade to black, paint the protagonist in a sympathetic light (Oliver Twist 鈥� 鈥榦h the poor starving orphan鈥�), or go down the classic vengeance plot (The Count of Monte Cristo). But Roth, refreshingly, takes readers in an entirely different direction.
鈥淗e remained unable to gauge what was and wasn鈥檛 in his long-term interest.鈥�鈥� The Human Stain
Something bad happened to Coleman, but should he make it his entire life? Is he served by being bitter and shaking his fist at the injustice?
The Human Stain has many layers, and there is a splendid feast for consideration, a great deal to consider. This book is a classic 鈥� a book you will get something new upon every reread. There is a lot about identity, thrown in the mix with complex characters asking deep questions. One of my favorite characters is Professor Delphine Roux.
鈥淵ou really think that this is important stuff in the world? It鈥檚 not that important. It鈥檚 not important at all.鈥� - The Human Stain
Interestingly, Philip Roth got into it with over the page for The Human Stain.
However, Roth himself denied this. He said that he barely knew Broyard, and Coleman was based off of a friend of his who was teaching at Princeton in 1985.
Wikipedia told Roth, he 鈥渨as not a credible source.鈥�
Now, Roth, are you going to shake your fist at the injustice or do something about it? LOL!
The Green Light at the End of the Dock (How much I spent):
Hardcover Text 鈥� $25.75 from eBay (First edition, First print)
Softcover Text 鈥� $11.94 from Blackwell鈥檚
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May 1, 2025
Un roman excelent, e p膬cat s膬 nu-l citi葲i...
Profesorul de studii clasice, Coleman Silk, fost decan al colegiului Athena, este acuzat de rasism (tocmai el, care e negru), pentru c膬 a folosit (f膬r膬 inten葲ie peiorativ膬) termenul 鈥瀞pook鈥� (fantom膬, stafie) cu privire la dou膬 studente de culoare. Refuz膬 s膬-葯i cear膬 scuze (nici nu avea de ce) 葯i demisioneaz膬. Coleman are o leg膬tur膬 cu mult mai t卯n膬ra Faunia Farley. Cei doi mor 卯ntr-un accident de ma葯in膬 de care nu e str膬in, probabil, Lester Farley, fostul so葲 al Fauniei, veteran al r膬zboiului din Vietnam, bolnav de ceea ce medicii au numit 鈥瀞tres post-traumatic鈥�. 脦n mare, cam asta e ac葲iunea romanului, e bine s膬 m膬 opresc aici...
De葯i povestitorul 卯nt卯mpl膬rilor e, 葯i de aceast膬 dat膬, Nathan Zuckerman, el pare a 葯ti mult mai mult dec卯t e permis unui narator particular s膬 葯tie despre celelalte personaje. La Philip Roth, naratorul particular devine adeseori omniscient. Iat膬 explica葲ia acestei 葯tiin葲e: 鈥濪e unde 葯tiu? Nu 葯tiu. Nici asta nu 葯tiu. Nu am de unde s膬 葯tiu. Iar acum c膬 am卯ndoi s卯nt mor葲i, nu mai poate 葯ti nimeni. Poate este bine, poate nu, dar nu pot s膬 fac dec卯t ceea ce face orice om care crede c膬 葯tie. 脦mi 卯nchipui. S卯nt silit s膬 卯mi 卯nchipui. 葮i, 卯nt卯mpl膬tor, din asta 卯mi c卯葯tig traiul. Este slujba mea. Este tot ceea ce mai fac acum鈥� (p.279).
Omniscien葲a lui Nathan Zuckerman (sau virtu葲ile imagina葲iei sale) ne ofer膬 c卯teva monologuri interioare ie葯ite din comun. Cel mai dramatic e, desigur, monologul lui Lester Farley. A fost 卯n Vietnam, a v膬zut cruzimi de nedescris, s-a 卯ntors acas膬 葯i a constatat c膬 e privit ca un om de prisos. St膬 prin spitale, e 卯ndopat cu medicamente, fo葯tii colegi 卯ncearc膬 s膬-l ajute. Nu e u葯or s膬 judeci un astfel de personaj. Nu treze葯te indignarea cititorului. De altfel, toate personajele lui Philip Roth s卯nt greu, imposibil de judecat. Po葲i s-o condamni pe ambi葲ioasa profesoar膬 Delphine Roux, cea care 卯l determin膬 pe Coleman s膬 demisioneze, doar pentru faptul c膬-i cere s膬 prezinte la cursuri o analiz膬 feminist膬 a tragediilor grece葯ti? Sigur c膬 nu...
Era firesc ca acest roman s膬 nu plac膬 鈥瀒deologilor鈥�. Philip Roth a fost acuzat 卯nc膬 o dat膬 de nesocotire a nobilelor idealuri ale corectitudinii politice. Dar interzic卯nd cuvintele ori 卯nlocuindu-le cu sintagme barbare nu dregi realitatea. R膬m卯i la nivelul unei g卯ndiri magice.
Pata uman膬 e o descriere acid膬 a ipocriziei 葯i la葯it膬葲ii omene葯ti.
P. S. 脦n pofida unei distribu葲ii prestigioase (Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins), filmul care s-a f膬cut dup膬 acest roman r膬m卯ne, din p膬cate, o melodram膬. Romanul lui Roth e mult mai bun...
Profesorul de studii clasice, Coleman Silk, fost decan al colegiului Athena, este acuzat de rasism (tocmai el, care e negru), pentru c膬 a folosit (f膬r膬 inten葲ie peiorativ膬) termenul 鈥瀞pook鈥� (fantom膬, stafie) cu privire la dou膬 studente de culoare. Refuz膬 s膬-葯i cear膬 scuze (nici nu avea de ce) 葯i demisioneaz膬. Coleman are o leg膬tur膬 cu mult mai t卯n膬ra Faunia Farley. Cei doi mor 卯ntr-un accident de ma葯in膬 de care nu e str膬in, probabil, Lester Farley, fostul so葲 al Fauniei, veteran al r膬zboiului din Vietnam, bolnav de ceea ce medicii au numit 鈥瀞tres post-traumatic鈥�. 脦n mare, cam asta e ac葲iunea romanului, e bine s膬 m膬 opresc aici...
De葯i povestitorul 卯nt卯mpl膬rilor e, 葯i de aceast膬 dat膬, Nathan Zuckerman, el pare a 葯ti mult mai mult dec卯t e permis unui narator particular s膬 葯tie despre celelalte personaje. La Philip Roth, naratorul particular devine adeseori omniscient. Iat膬 explica葲ia acestei 葯tiin葲e: 鈥濪e unde 葯tiu? Nu 葯tiu. Nici asta nu 葯tiu. Nu am de unde s膬 葯tiu. Iar acum c膬 am卯ndoi s卯nt mor葲i, nu mai poate 葯ti nimeni. Poate este bine, poate nu, dar nu pot s膬 fac dec卯t ceea ce face orice om care crede c膬 葯tie. 脦mi 卯nchipui. S卯nt silit s膬 卯mi 卯nchipui. 葮i, 卯nt卯mpl膬tor, din asta 卯mi c卯葯tig traiul. Este slujba mea. Este tot ceea ce mai fac acum鈥� (p.279).
Omniscien葲a lui Nathan Zuckerman (sau virtu葲ile imagina葲iei sale) ne ofer膬 c卯teva monologuri interioare ie葯ite din comun. Cel mai dramatic e, desigur, monologul lui Lester Farley. A fost 卯n Vietnam, a v膬zut cruzimi de nedescris, s-a 卯ntors acas膬 葯i a constatat c膬 e privit ca un om de prisos. St膬 prin spitale, e 卯ndopat cu medicamente, fo葯tii colegi 卯ncearc膬 s膬-l ajute. Nu e u葯or s膬 judeci un astfel de personaj. Nu treze葯te indignarea cititorului. De altfel, toate personajele lui Philip Roth s卯nt greu, imposibil de judecat. Po葲i s-o condamni pe ambi葲ioasa profesoar膬 Delphine Roux, cea care 卯l determin膬 pe Coleman s膬 demisioneze, doar pentru faptul c膬-i cere s膬 prezinte la cursuri o analiz膬 feminist膬 a tragediilor grece葯ti? Sigur c膬 nu...
Era firesc ca acest roman s膬 nu plac膬 鈥瀒deologilor鈥�. Philip Roth a fost acuzat 卯nc膬 o dat膬 de nesocotire a nobilelor idealuri ale corectitudinii politice. Dar interzic卯nd cuvintele ori 卯nlocuindu-le cu sintagme barbare nu dregi realitatea. R膬m卯i la nivelul unei g卯ndiri magice.
Pata uman膬 e o descriere acid膬 a ipocriziei 葯i la葯it膬葲ii omene葯ti.
P. S. 脦n pofida unei distribu葲ii prestigioase (Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins), filmul care s-a f膬cut dup膬 acest roman r膬m卯ne, din p膬cate, o melodram膬. Romanul lui Roth e mult mai bun...
November 22, 2017
"螒蠀蟿维 蟺伪胃伪委谓蔚喂蟼 维渭伪 渭蔚纬伪位蠋谓蔚喂蟼 渭蔚 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺慰蠀蟼. 韦慰 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓慰 蟽蟿委纬渭伪...苇蟿蟽喂 蔚委谓伪喂. 螒蠁萎谓慰蠀渭蔚 苇谓伪 蟽蟿委纬渭伪, 蟿慰 伪蟺慰蟿蠉蟺蠅渭维 渭伪蟼. 螒魏伪胃伪蟻蟽委伪,蟽魏位畏蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪, 魏伪魏慰蟺慰委畏蟽畏, 蟽蠁维位渭伪, 蟺蔚蟻喂蟿蟿蠋渭伪蟿伪, 蟽蟺苇蟻渭伪- 未蔚谓 苇蠂慰蠀渭蔚 维位位慰谓 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰 谓伪 未畏位蠋蟽慰蠀渭蔚 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟻慰蠀蟽委伪 渭伪蟼. 螝伪喂 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 蟽蟿委纬渭伪 未蔚谓 苇蠂蔚喂 蟽蠂苇蟽畏 渭蔚 伪谓蠀蟺伪魏慰萎, 魏伪渭喂维 蟽蠂苇蟽畏 渭蔚 蟽蠅蟿畏蟻委伪 魏伪喂 位蠉蟿蟻蠅蟽畏. 韦慰 苇蠂慰蠀渭蔚 蠈位慰喂 渭伪蟼. 螘委谓伪喂 渭苇蟽伪 渭伪蟼. 螆渭蠁蠀蟿慰. 螠伪蟼 魏伪胃慰蟻委味蔚喂. 韦慰 蟽蟿委纬渭伪 蔚谓蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 渭苇蟽伪 渭伪蟼 蟺蟻喂谓 伪蠁萎蟽蔚喂 蟿畏谓 魏畏位委未伪 蟿慰蠀. 违蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 蟿慰 蟽畏渭维未喂 蟿慰蠀. 螘委谓伪喂 蟿蠈蟽慰 苇渭蠁蠀蟿慰 蠋蟽蟿蔚 谓伪 渭畏谓 伪蟺伪喂蟿蔚委蟿伪喂 魏畏位委未伪....慰蟺慰喂慰蟽未萎蟺慰蟿蔚 位蠈纬慰蟼 蟺蔚蟻委 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 蠁维蟻蟽伪. 螝伪喂 蟺慰位蠉 尾维蟻尾伪蟻畏 渭维位喂蟽蟿伪. 螚 蠁伪谓蟿伪蟽委蠅蟽畏 蟿畏蟼 魏伪胃伪蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 蟿蟻慰渭伪蠂蟿喂魏萎. 螤伪蟻维位慰纬畏.
韦喂 蔚委谓伪喂 畏 蔚蟺喂未委蠅尉畏 蟿畏蟼 魏伪胃伪蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼 伪谓 蠈蠂喂 魏喂 维位位畏 蟻蠀蟺伪蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪;....蟿慰 蟽蟿委纬渭伪 蔚委谓伪喂 伪谓伪蟺蠈蠁蔚蠀魏蟿慰..."
螠苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟿畏蟼 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏萎蟼 纬蔚谓谓喂苇蟿伪喂 蟿慰 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓慰 渭慰谓蟿苇位慰 味蠅萎蟼.
韦慰 "蟽蟿委纬渭伪",畏 魏慰喂谓慰蟿慰蟺委伪 蟿慰蠀 魏伪魏慰蠉, 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 蟺蟻喂谓 蟿畏谓 蠉蟺伪蟻尉畏 蟿畏蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓畏蟼 蠀蟺蠈蟽蟿伪蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 未喂伪喂蠅谓委味蔚蟿伪喂 渭苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 伪蠀蟿萎.
螆谓伪 蔚尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏蠈 尾喂尾位委慰,胃伪 苇位蔚纬伪 蟿慰 魏伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻慰 蟿畏蟼 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏伪谓喂魏萎蟼 蟿蟻喂位慰纬委伪蟼.
韦巍螒螕螜螝螚 螘螜巍惟螡螜螒 蟽蔚 蠈位慰 蟿畏蟼 蟿慰 渭蔚纬伪位蔚委慰.
螤蟻慰蟽蟺维胃蔚喂伪 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 蟺位萎蟻慰蠀蟼 伪蠀蟿慰渭蠈位畏蟽畏蟼 渭蔚 蟿蟻慰渭蔚蟻苇蟼 蟽蠀谓蔚蟺蔚委蔚蟼. 螣 伪蟺维谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺蟻慰蟽蟺伪胃蔚委 谓伪 伪位位维尉蔚喂 蟿慰 蟺蔚蟺蟻蠅渭苇谓慰 蟿慰蠀 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 谓伪 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蠀蟺慰位慰纬委蟽蔚喂 蟿慰 伪谓伪蟺蠈未蟻伪蟽蟿慰 蟿畏蟼 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪蟼 蟿慰蠀 魏蠈蟽渭慰蠀 蟺慰蠀 蔚尉蔚位委蟽蟽蔚蟿伪喂.
桅伪谓蟿维蟽蟿畏魏蔚 蟺蠅蟼 畏 蠁蠀纬萎 蟿慰蠀 伪谓 蟺蔚蟿蠉蠂蔚喂 胃伪 魏蟻伪蟿萎蟽蔚喂 纬喂伪 蟺维谓蟿伪. 螠蔚蟿维 未喂伪蟺委蟽蟿蠅蟽蔚 蟿蟻伪纬喂魏维 蟻蔚伪位喂蟽蟿喂魏维 蟺蠅蟼 蟿伪 蟺维谓蟿伪 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蟺蟻蠈蟽魏伪喂蟻慰 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻伪 魏伪喂 畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 魏伪胃蠋蟼 魏伪喂 畏 渭慰委蟻伪 蟿蠅谓 蔚尉蔚位委尉蔚蠅谓 蟽蔚 伪喂蠁谓喂未喂维味慰蠀谓 伪谓蔚尉苇位蔚纬魏蟿伪.
螣 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 螝蠈位渭伪谓 蔚委谓伪喂 慰 维谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺维位蔚蠄蔚 渭蔚
蟿畏谓 喂蔚蟻慰蟿蔚位蔚蟽蟿委伪 蟿畏蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 谓喂魏萎胃畏魏蔚.
螣 螝蠈位渭伪谓 蔚委谓伪喂 苇谓伪蟼 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪委慰蟼 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 魏位伪蟽喂魏蠋谓 蟽蟺慰蠀未蠋谓 魏伪蟿伪蠁苇蟻谓蔚喂 蠅蟼 魏慰蟽渭萎蟿慰蟻伪蟼 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 蟺伪蟻畏魏渭伪蟽渭苇谓慰 蟺伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿萎渭喂慰 谓伪 伪位位维尉蔚喂 维蟻未畏谓 蟿畏谓 蟺慰喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟽蟺慰蠀未蠋谓,谓伪 尾蔚位蟿喂蠋蟽蔚喂 魏伪喂 谓伪 蔚魏蟽蠀纬蠂蟻慰谓委蟽蔚喂 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 未蠀谓伪渭喂魏萎 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿慰蠀 蠈位慰 蟿慰 伪魏伪未畏渭伪蠆魏蠈 蟽蠉蟽蟿畏渭伪 蟿慰蠀 喂未蟻蠉渭伪蟿慰蟼.
螔蟻委蟽魏蔚蟿伪喂 蟽蟿慰 伪蟺蠈纬蔚喂慰 蟿畏蟼 魏伪蟿伪尉委蠅蟽畏蟼 蟿慰蠀.
螁蟻喂蟽蟿慰蟼 慰喂魏慰纬蔚谓蔚喂维蟻蠂畏蟼. 螘蠀蠀蟺蠈位畏蟺蟿慰蟼 蟺慰位委蟿畏蟼. 螁蠄慰纬慰蟼 伪魏伪未畏渭伪蠆魏蠈蟼 魏伪喂 萎蟻蠅伪蟼 伪蟻蠂伪委伪蟼 蟿蟻伪纬蠅未委伪蟼.
螠喂伪 蟿蟻伪纬蠅未委伪 蟺慰蠀 蟽魏畏谓慰胃苇蟿畏蟽蔚 慰位慰渭蠈谓伪蠂慰蟼 魏伪喂 伪蠁慰蠉 未喂苇蟺蟻伪尉蔚 蟿畏谓 蠉尾蟻畏, 蟺蔚蟻喂渭苇谓蔚喂 蟿畏谓 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 委蠂谓慰蟼 渭蔚蟿伪渭苇位蔚喂伪蟼 萎 胃蠀蟽委伪蟼 蟺蟻慰蟼 蟿慰蠀蟼 胃蔚慰蠉蟼 蟿畏蟼 渭慰委蟻伪蟼.
螒谓伪蟺蠈蠁蔚蠀魏蟿伪 伪魏慰位慰蠀胃蔚委 畏 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏萎 谓苇渭蔚蟽畏.
韦畏谓 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟿慰蠀 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎 蟿畏谓 渭伪胃伪委谓慰蠀渭蔚 魏伪喂 蟺维位喂 伪蟺慰 蟿慰谓 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 螡苇喂胃伪谓 螙慰蠉魏蔚蟻渭伪谓, 慰 慰蟺慰委慰蟼 伪谓伪蟺蟿蠉蟽蟽蔚喂 蠁喂位喂魏萎 蟽蠂苇蟽畏 渭蔚 蟿慰谓 螝蠈位渭伪谓 魏伪喂 蟺蟻慰蟽蟺伪胃蔚委 谓伪 魏伪蟿伪谓慰萎蟽蔚喂 蟿畏谓 喂未喂慰蟽蠀纬魏蟻伪蟽委伪 蟿慰蠀 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎 魏伪喂 蟿慰 渭蠀蟽蟿萎蟻喂慰 蟿慰蠀 胃伪谓维蟿慰蠀 蟿慰蠀.
螕谓蠅蟻委味慰谓蟿伪喂 蟺维谓蠅 蟽蟿慰谓 蟺伪蟻慰尉蠀蟽渭蠈 伪纬伪谓维魏蟿畏蟽畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎 伪渭苇蟽蠅蟼 渭蔚蟿维 蟿慰 胃维谓伪蟿慰 蟿畏蟼 蟽蠀味蠉纬慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 蠈蟺慰蠀 魏伪喂 蔚喂蟽尾维位蔚喂 蟽蟿畏 味蠅萎 蟿慰蠀 -蟺伪蟻伪喂蟿畏渭苇谓慰蠀 伪蟺慰 蠈位伪-螙慰蠉魏蔚蟻渭伪谓 伪蟺伪喂蟿蠋谓蟿伪蟼 伪蟺慰 蟿慰谓 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 谓伪 纬蟻维蠄蔚喂 尾喂尾位委慰 蟽蟿慰 慰蟺慰委慰 胃伪 伪蟺慰魏伪位蠉蟺蟿蔚喂 蟺慰喂慰喂 蟽魏蠈蟿蠅蟽伪谓 蟿畏 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰 蟿慰蠀 蠅蟼 畏胃喂魏慰委 伪蠀蟿慰蠀蟻纬慰委.
螣 螝蠈位渭伪谓 伪谓伪蟿蟻苇蟺蔚喂 蟿畏谓 谓蔚魏蟻喂魏萎 蟺蟻慰尾位蔚蠄喂渭蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 味蠅萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 螙慰蠉魏蔚蟻渭伪谓 蠈蟿伪谓 蟿慰蠀 渭喂位维蔚喂 纬喂伪 蟿慰 蟺伪蟻蔚位胃蠈谓 蟿慰蠀 伪位位维 魏蠀蟻委蠅蟼 纬喂伪 蟿慰 蟺慰位蠉蟺伪胃慰 蟺伪蟻蠈谓 蟿慰蠀.
螣 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 魏伪蟿畏纬慰蟻蔚委蟿伪喂 蠅蟼 蟻伪蟿蟽喂蟽蟿萎蟼 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 蟺伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭喂伪魏萎 魏慰喂谓蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蠉蟽蟿蔚蟻伪 伪蟺慰 蔚谓伪 未喂蠁慰蟻慰蠉渭蔚谓慰 纬位蠅蟽蟽喂魏维 蟽蠂蠈位喂慰 蟺慰蠀 魏维谓蔚喂 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蟿畏谓 蟿维尉畏. 螒谓伪蠁苇蟻蔚蟿伪喂 蟽蔚 未蠀慰 渭慰谓委渭蠅蟼 伪蟺蠈谓蟿蔚蟼 渭伪胃畏蟿苇蟼 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 纬谓蠅蟻委味蔚喂 魏伪谓 蟺蠅蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 谓苇纬蟻慰喂 伪蠁慰蠉 未蔚谓 蟿慰蠀蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 未蔚喂 蟺慰蟿苇.
螒谓伪纬魏维味蔚蟿伪喂 谓伪 蟺伪蟻伪喂蟿畏胃蔚委 魏伪喂 蠂维谓慰谓蟿伪蟼 蟿畏 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰 蟿慰蠀 蠂维谓蔚喂 蟿伪 蟺维谓蟿伪. 螌蟿喂未畏蟺慰蟿蔚 苇蠂蟿喂味蔚 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 蟺维谓蠅 蟽蔚 蠄蔚蠉蟿喂魏蔚蟼 尾维蟽蔚喂蟼 蟽蟿萎蟻喂尉畏蟼.
螒蟺慰 蔚魏蔚委 尉蔚魏喂谓维蔚喂 畏 魏维蟿蠅 尾蠈位蟿伪. 螒蟻蠂委味蔚喂 慰 蟺蠈位蔚渭慰蟼 蟿蠅谓 蔚谓蟿蠀蟺蠋蟽蔚蠅谓 魏伪喂 伪谓伪蟿苇渭谓慰谓蟿伪喂 尾伪胃喂苇蟼 未慰渭苇蟼 蟿畏蟼 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏伪谓喂魏萎蟼 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪蟼 蟺慰蠀 胃委纬慰蠀谓 蟿畏谓 谓蔚蠈蟿蔚蟻畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪.
螢蔚蟺蟻慰尾维位位慰蠀谓 伪蟺蟻慰魏维位蠀蟺蟿伪 慰喂 蠁蠀位蔚蟿喂魏苇蟼 未喂伪魏蟻委蟽蔚喂蟼, 蟿伪 未喂魏伪喂蠋渭伪蟿伪 蟿蠅谓 谓苇纬蟻蠅谓,慰 蟺蠈位蔚渭慰蟼 蟿慰蠀 螔喂蔚蟿谓维渭, 慰 蟺蠈位蔚渭慰蟼 蟿慰蠀 螜蟻维魏, 蟿慰 蟺苇慰蟼 蟿慰蠀 螝位委谓蟿慰谓 蟽蟿慰 慰尾维位 纬蟻伪蠁蔚委慰 魏伪喂 畏 蟽蟿蟻慰蠁萎 蟽蟿慰 未萎胃蔚谓 蟽蠀谓蟿畏蟻畏蟿喂蟽渭蠈.
螣 螝蠈位渭伪谓 蔚尉慰渭慰位慰纬蔚委蟿伪喂 蟽蟿慰谓 螙慰蠉魏蔚蟻渭伪谓 蠈蟿喂 渭蔚蟿维 蟿慰 蟽蟿喂纬渭伪蟿喂蟽渭蠈 蟿慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿畏 未喂维位蠀蟽畏 蟿畏蟼 慰喂魏慰纬苇谓蔚喂伪蟼 蟿慰蠀 苇蠂蔚喂 蟽蠀谓维蠄蔚喂 蔚蟻蠅蟿喂魏萎 蟽蠂苇蟽畏 渭蔚 渭喂伪 伪谓伪位蠁维尾畏蟿畏 魏伪胃伪蟻委蟽蟿蟻喂伪 蟺慰蠀 畏位喂魏喂伪魏维 胃伪 渭蟺慰蟻慰蠉蟽蔚 谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚纬纬慰谓萎 蟿慰蠀, 畏 慰蟺慰委伪 蔚委谓伪喂 渭喂伪 伪魏蠈渭畏 蟿蟻伪纬喂魏萎 蠁喂纬慰蠉蟻伪 蟽蔚 伪蠀蟿萎 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟻维蟽蟿伪蟽畏 蟿畏蟼 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏蟼.
韦慰 渭蔚纬维位慰 渭蠀蟽蟿喂魏蠈 蟿慰蠀 蠈渭蠅蟼 未蔚谓 蟿慰 慰渭慰位慰纬蔚委. 螒蠀蟿蠈 蔚委谓伪喂 畏 位蠉蟿蟻蠅蟽畏 魏伪喂 慰 胃维谓伪蟿慰蟼 蟿慰蠀.
螣 伪尉喂蠈蟿喂渭慰蟼 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 螝蠈位渭伪谓 魏伪蟿维纬蔚蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 慰喂魏慰纬苇谓蔚喂伪 谓苇纬蟻蠅谓. 螘委谓伪喂 苇谓伪蟼 伪谓慰喂蠂蟿蠈蠂蟻蠅渭慰蟼 谓苇纬蟻慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 渭蔚纬伪位蠋谓蔚喂 尾喂蠋谓慰谓蟿伪蟼 蟿慰 蟻伪蟿蟽喂蟽渭蠈 伪蠁慰蠉 蟿慰谓 魏伪蟿伪蟿蟻苇蠂蔚喂 慰 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻喂蟽渭蠈蟼 蟿慰蠀 "伪蟻维蟺畏".
螒蟺慰蠁伪蟽委味蔚喂 谓伪 尉伪谓伪纬蔚谓谓畏胃蔚委 蠅蟼 螘尾蟻伪委慰蟼 魏伪喂 谓伪 伪蟺伪蟻谓畏胃蔚委 纬喂伪 蟺维谓蟿伪 渭维谓伪, 慰喂魏慰纬苇谓蔚喂伪,魏伪蟿伪纬蠅纬萎,蠁蠀位萎.
螒蟻谓蔚委蟿伪喂 蟿畏 蟽蟿喂纬渭伪蟿喂蟽渭苇谓畏 蟿慰蠀 纬蔚谓喂维 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿蠋蟿蔚蟻畏 谓苇纬蟻喂魏畏 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 蟿蠅谓 蟺伪喂未喂魏蠋谓 蟿慰蠀 蠂蟻蠈谓蠅谓. 螝蟻伪蟿维蔚喂 魏蟻蠀蠁萎 蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿伪纬蠅纬萎 蟿慰蠀 伪魏蠈渭畏 魏伪喂 伪蟺慰 蟿畏 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰 魏伪喂 蟿伪 蟿苇蟽蟽蔚蟻伪 蟺伪喂未喂维 蟿慰蠀.
螝伪喂 蠁蟿维谓蔚喂 蟽伪蟻维谓蟿伪 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 渭蔚蟿维 谓伪 伪蟺慰尾维位位蔚蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 渭喂伪 伪谓蟿喂蟻伪蟿蟽喂蟽蟿喂魏萎 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 蟺慰蠀 蠀蟺蔚蟻伪蟽蟺委味蔚蟿伪喂 蟿伪 未喂魏维 蟿慰蠀 未喂魏伪喂蠋渭伪蟿伪. 危蟿慰 蟿苇蟻渭伪 蟿畏蟼 味蠅萎蟼 蟿慰蠀, 畏 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟿蠅谓 委蟽蠅谓 未喂魏伪喂蠅渭维蟿蠅谓 魏伪蟿畏纬慰蟻蔚委 蟿慰谓 谓苇纬蟻慰 蟽蠀谓蟿伪尉喂慰蠉蠂慰 魏慰蟽渭萎蟿慰蟻伪 蟺伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭委慰蠀 纬喂伪...蟻伪蟿蟽喂蟽蟿萎.
"螤慰喂伪 畏 喂蔚蟻慰蟿蔚位蔚蟽蟿委伪 蟿畏蟼 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏蟼;
螤蠅蟼 纬委谓蔚蟿伪喂;
螠蔚 蔚尉慰蟽蟿蟻伪魏喂蟽渭蠈 萎 伪谓蟿伪蟺慰未委未慰谓蟿伪蟼
蟿慰 伪委渭伪 渭蔚 伪委渭伪".
危慰蠁慰魏位萎蟼,螣喂未委蟺慰蠀蟼 蟿蠉蟻伪谓谓慰蟼
螝伪位萎 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏
螁谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰喂 魏伪喂 螁谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰喂!!
韦喂 蔚委谓伪喂 畏 蔚蟺喂未委蠅尉畏 蟿畏蟼 魏伪胃伪蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼 伪谓 蠈蠂喂 魏喂 维位位畏 蟻蠀蟺伪蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪;....蟿慰 蟽蟿委纬渭伪 蔚委谓伪喂 伪谓伪蟺蠈蠁蔚蠀魏蟿慰..."
螠苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟿畏蟼 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏萎蟼 纬蔚谓谓喂苇蟿伪喂 蟿慰 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓慰 渭慰谓蟿苇位慰 味蠅萎蟼.
韦慰 "蟽蟿委纬渭伪",畏 魏慰喂谓慰蟿慰蟺委伪 蟿慰蠀 魏伪魏慰蠉, 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 蟺蟻喂谓 蟿畏谓 蠉蟺伪蟻尉畏 蟿畏蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓畏蟼 蠀蟺蠈蟽蟿伪蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 未喂伪喂蠅谓委味蔚蟿伪喂 渭苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 伪蠀蟿萎.
螆谓伪 蔚尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏蠈 尾喂尾位委慰,胃伪 苇位蔚纬伪 蟿慰 魏伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻慰 蟿畏蟼 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏伪谓喂魏萎蟼 蟿蟻喂位慰纬委伪蟼.
韦巍螒螕螜螝螚 螘螜巍惟螡螜螒 蟽蔚 蠈位慰 蟿畏蟼 蟿慰 渭蔚纬伪位蔚委慰.
螤蟻慰蟽蟺维胃蔚喂伪 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 蟺位萎蟻慰蠀蟼 伪蠀蟿慰渭蠈位畏蟽畏蟼 渭蔚 蟿蟻慰渭蔚蟻苇蟼 蟽蠀谓蔚蟺蔚委蔚蟼. 螣 伪蟺维谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺蟻慰蟽蟺伪胃蔚委 谓伪 伪位位维尉蔚喂 蟿慰 蟺蔚蟺蟻蠅渭苇谓慰 蟿慰蠀 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 谓伪 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蠀蟺慰位慰纬委蟽蔚喂 蟿慰 伪谓伪蟺蠈未蟻伪蟽蟿慰 蟿畏蟼 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪蟼 蟿慰蠀 魏蠈蟽渭慰蠀 蟺慰蠀 蔚尉蔚位委蟽蟽蔚蟿伪喂.
桅伪谓蟿维蟽蟿畏魏蔚 蟺蠅蟼 畏 蠁蠀纬萎 蟿慰蠀 伪谓 蟺蔚蟿蠉蠂蔚喂 胃伪 魏蟻伪蟿萎蟽蔚喂 纬喂伪 蟺维谓蟿伪. 螠蔚蟿维 未喂伪蟺委蟽蟿蠅蟽蔚 蟿蟻伪纬喂魏维 蟻蔚伪位喂蟽蟿喂魏维 蟺蠅蟼 蟿伪 蟺维谓蟿伪 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蟺蟻蠈蟽魏伪喂蟻慰 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻伪 魏伪喂 畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 魏伪胃蠋蟼 魏伪喂 畏 渭慰委蟻伪 蟿蠅谓 蔚尉蔚位委尉蔚蠅谓 蟽蔚 伪喂蠁谓喂未喂维味慰蠀谓 伪谓蔚尉苇位蔚纬魏蟿伪.
螣 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 螝蠈位渭伪谓 蔚委谓伪喂 慰 维谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺维位蔚蠄蔚 渭蔚
蟿畏谓 喂蔚蟻慰蟿蔚位蔚蟽蟿委伪 蟿畏蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 谓喂魏萎胃畏魏蔚.
螣 螝蠈位渭伪谓 蔚委谓伪喂 苇谓伪蟼 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪委慰蟼 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 魏位伪蟽喂魏蠋谓 蟽蟺慰蠀未蠋谓 魏伪蟿伪蠁苇蟻谓蔚喂 蠅蟼 魏慰蟽渭萎蟿慰蟻伪蟼 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 蟺伪蟻畏魏渭伪蟽渭苇谓慰 蟺伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿萎渭喂慰 谓伪 伪位位维尉蔚喂 维蟻未畏谓 蟿畏谓 蟺慰喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟽蟺慰蠀未蠋谓,谓伪 尾蔚位蟿喂蠋蟽蔚喂 魏伪喂 谓伪 蔚魏蟽蠀纬蠂蟻慰谓委蟽蔚喂 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 未蠀谓伪渭喂魏萎 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿慰蠀 蠈位慰 蟿慰 伪魏伪未畏渭伪蠆魏蠈 蟽蠉蟽蟿畏渭伪 蟿慰蠀 喂未蟻蠉渭伪蟿慰蟼.
螔蟻委蟽魏蔚蟿伪喂 蟽蟿慰 伪蟺蠈纬蔚喂慰 蟿畏蟼 魏伪蟿伪尉委蠅蟽畏蟼 蟿慰蠀.
螁蟻喂蟽蟿慰蟼 慰喂魏慰纬蔚谓蔚喂维蟻蠂畏蟼. 螘蠀蠀蟺蠈位畏蟺蟿慰蟼 蟺慰位委蟿畏蟼. 螁蠄慰纬慰蟼 伪魏伪未畏渭伪蠆魏蠈蟼 魏伪喂 萎蟻蠅伪蟼 伪蟻蠂伪委伪蟼 蟿蟻伪纬蠅未委伪蟼.
螠喂伪 蟿蟻伪纬蠅未委伪 蟺慰蠀 蟽魏畏谓慰胃苇蟿畏蟽蔚 慰位慰渭蠈谓伪蠂慰蟼 魏伪喂 伪蠁慰蠉 未喂苇蟺蟻伪尉蔚 蟿畏谓 蠉尾蟻畏, 蟺蔚蟻喂渭苇谓蔚喂 蟿畏谓 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 委蠂谓慰蟼 渭蔚蟿伪渭苇位蔚喂伪蟼 萎 胃蠀蟽委伪蟼 蟺蟻慰蟼 蟿慰蠀蟼 胃蔚慰蠉蟼 蟿畏蟼 渭慰委蟻伪蟼.
螒谓伪蟺蠈蠁蔚蠀魏蟿伪 伪魏慰位慰蠀胃蔚委 畏 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏萎 谓苇渭蔚蟽畏.
韦畏谓 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟿慰蠀 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎 蟿畏谓 渭伪胃伪委谓慰蠀渭蔚 魏伪喂 蟺维位喂 伪蟺慰 蟿慰谓 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 螡苇喂胃伪谓 螙慰蠉魏蔚蟻渭伪谓, 慰 慰蟺慰委慰蟼 伪谓伪蟺蟿蠉蟽蟽蔚喂 蠁喂位喂魏萎 蟽蠂苇蟽畏 渭蔚 蟿慰谓 螝蠈位渭伪谓 魏伪喂 蟺蟻慰蟽蟺伪胃蔚委 谓伪 魏伪蟿伪谓慰萎蟽蔚喂 蟿畏谓 喂未喂慰蟽蠀纬魏蟻伪蟽委伪 蟿慰蠀 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎 魏伪喂 蟿慰 渭蠀蟽蟿萎蟻喂慰 蟿慰蠀 胃伪谓维蟿慰蠀 蟿慰蠀.
螕谓蠅蟻委味慰谓蟿伪喂 蟺维谓蠅 蟽蟿慰谓 蟺伪蟻慰尉蠀蟽渭蠈 伪纬伪谓维魏蟿畏蟽畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎 伪渭苇蟽蠅蟼 渭蔚蟿维 蟿慰 胃维谓伪蟿慰 蟿畏蟼 蟽蠀味蠉纬慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 蠈蟺慰蠀 魏伪喂 蔚喂蟽尾维位蔚喂 蟽蟿畏 味蠅萎 蟿慰蠀 -蟺伪蟻伪喂蟿畏渭苇谓慰蠀 伪蟺慰 蠈位伪-螙慰蠉魏蔚蟻渭伪谓 伪蟺伪喂蟿蠋谓蟿伪蟼 伪蟺慰 蟿慰谓 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 谓伪 纬蟻维蠄蔚喂 尾喂尾位委慰 蟽蟿慰 慰蟺慰委慰 胃伪 伪蟺慰魏伪位蠉蟺蟿蔚喂 蟺慰喂慰喂 蟽魏蠈蟿蠅蟽伪谓 蟿畏 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰 蟿慰蠀 蠅蟼 畏胃喂魏慰委 伪蠀蟿慰蠀蟻纬慰委.
螣 螝蠈位渭伪谓 伪谓伪蟿蟻苇蟺蔚喂 蟿畏谓 谓蔚魏蟻喂魏萎 蟺蟻慰尾位蔚蠄喂渭蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 味蠅萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 螙慰蠉魏蔚蟻渭伪谓 蠈蟿伪谓 蟿慰蠀 渭喂位维蔚喂 纬喂伪 蟿慰 蟺伪蟻蔚位胃蠈谓 蟿慰蠀 伪位位维 魏蠀蟻委蠅蟼 纬喂伪 蟿慰 蟺慰位蠉蟺伪胃慰 蟺伪蟻蠈谓 蟿慰蠀.
螣 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 魏伪蟿畏纬慰蟻蔚委蟿伪喂 蠅蟼 蟻伪蟿蟽喂蟽蟿萎蟼 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 蟺伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭喂伪魏萎 魏慰喂谓蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蠉蟽蟿蔚蟻伪 伪蟺慰 蔚谓伪 未喂蠁慰蟻慰蠉渭蔚谓慰 纬位蠅蟽蟽喂魏维 蟽蠂蠈位喂慰 蟺慰蠀 魏维谓蔚喂 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蟿畏谓 蟿维尉畏. 螒谓伪蠁苇蟻蔚蟿伪喂 蟽蔚 未蠀慰 渭慰谓委渭蠅蟼 伪蟺蠈谓蟿蔚蟼 渭伪胃畏蟿苇蟼 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 纬谓蠅蟻委味蔚喂 魏伪谓 蟺蠅蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 谓苇纬蟻慰喂 伪蠁慰蠉 未蔚谓 蟿慰蠀蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 未蔚喂 蟺慰蟿苇.
螒谓伪纬魏维味蔚蟿伪喂 谓伪 蟺伪蟻伪喂蟿畏胃蔚委 魏伪喂 蠂维谓慰谓蟿伪蟼 蟿畏 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰 蟿慰蠀 蠂维谓蔚喂 蟿伪 蟺维谓蟿伪. 螌蟿喂未畏蟺慰蟿蔚 苇蠂蟿喂味蔚 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 蟺维谓蠅 蟽蔚 蠄蔚蠉蟿喂魏蔚蟼 尾维蟽蔚喂蟼 蟽蟿萎蟻喂尉畏蟼.
螒蟺慰 蔚魏蔚委 尉蔚魏喂谓维蔚喂 畏 魏维蟿蠅 尾蠈位蟿伪. 螒蟻蠂委味蔚喂 慰 蟺蠈位蔚渭慰蟼 蟿蠅谓 蔚谓蟿蠀蟺蠋蟽蔚蠅谓 魏伪喂 伪谓伪蟿苇渭谓慰谓蟿伪喂 尾伪胃喂苇蟼 未慰渭苇蟼 蟿畏蟼 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏伪谓喂魏萎蟼 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪蟼 蟺慰蠀 胃委纬慰蠀谓 蟿畏谓 谓蔚蠈蟿蔚蟻畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪.
螢蔚蟺蟻慰尾维位位慰蠀谓 伪蟺蟻慰魏维位蠀蟺蟿伪 慰喂 蠁蠀位蔚蟿喂魏苇蟼 未喂伪魏蟻委蟽蔚喂蟼, 蟿伪 未喂魏伪喂蠋渭伪蟿伪 蟿蠅谓 谓苇纬蟻蠅谓,慰 蟺蠈位蔚渭慰蟼 蟿慰蠀 螔喂蔚蟿谓维渭, 慰 蟺蠈位蔚渭慰蟼 蟿慰蠀 螜蟻维魏, 蟿慰 蟺苇慰蟼 蟿慰蠀 螝位委谓蟿慰谓 蟽蟿慰 慰尾维位 纬蟻伪蠁蔚委慰 魏伪喂 畏 蟽蟿蟻慰蠁萎 蟽蟿慰 未萎胃蔚谓 蟽蠀谓蟿畏蟻畏蟿喂蟽渭蠈.
螣 螝蠈位渭伪谓 蔚尉慰渭慰位慰纬蔚委蟿伪喂 蟽蟿慰谓 螙慰蠉魏蔚蟻渭伪谓 蠈蟿喂 渭蔚蟿维 蟿慰 蟽蟿喂纬渭伪蟿喂蟽渭蠈 蟿慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿畏 未喂维位蠀蟽畏 蟿畏蟼 慰喂魏慰纬苇谓蔚喂伪蟼 蟿慰蠀 苇蠂蔚喂 蟽蠀谓维蠄蔚喂 蔚蟻蠅蟿喂魏萎 蟽蠂苇蟽畏 渭蔚 渭喂伪 伪谓伪位蠁维尾畏蟿畏 魏伪胃伪蟻委蟽蟿蟻喂伪 蟺慰蠀 畏位喂魏喂伪魏维 胃伪 渭蟺慰蟻慰蠉蟽蔚 谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚纬纬慰谓萎 蟿慰蠀, 畏 慰蟺慰委伪 蔚委谓伪喂 渭喂伪 伪魏蠈渭畏 蟿蟻伪纬喂魏萎 蠁喂纬慰蠉蟻伪 蟽蔚 伪蠀蟿萎 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟻维蟽蟿伪蟽畏 蟿畏蟼 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏蟼.
韦慰 渭蔚纬维位慰 渭蠀蟽蟿喂魏蠈 蟿慰蠀 蠈渭蠅蟼 未蔚谓 蟿慰 慰渭慰位慰纬蔚委. 螒蠀蟿蠈 蔚委谓伪喂 畏 位蠉蟿蟻蠅蟽畏 魏伪喂 慰 胃维谓伪蟿慰蟼 蟿慰蠀.
螣 伪尉喂蠈蟿喂渭慰蟼 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 螝蠈位渭伪谓 魏伪蟿维纬蔚蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 慰喂魏慰纬苇谓蔚喂伪 谓苇纬蟻蠅谓. 螘委谓伪喂 苇谓伪蟼 伪谓慰喂蠂蟿蠈蠂蟻蠅渭慰蟼 谓苇纬蟻慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 渭蔚纬伪位蠋谓蔚喂 尾喂蠋谓慰谓蟿伪蟼 蟿慰 蟻伪蟿蟽喂蟽渭蠈 伪蠁慰蠉 蟿慰谓 魏伪蟿伪蟿蟻苇蠂蔚喂 慰 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻喂蟽渭蠈蟼 蟿慰蠀 "伪蟻维蟺畏".
螒蟺慰蠁伪蟽委味蔚喂 谓伪 尉伪谓伪纬蔚谓谓畏胃蔚委 蠅蟼 螘尾蟻伪委慰蟼 魏伪喂 谓伪 伪蟺伪蟻谓畏胃蔚委 纬喂伪 蟺维谓蟿伪 渭维谓伪, 慰喂魏慰纬苇谓蔚喂伪,魏伪蟿伪纬蠅纬萎,蠁蠀位萎.
螒蟻谓蔚委蟿伪喂 蟿畏 蟽蟿喂纬渭伪蟿喂蟽渭苇谓畏 蟿慰蠀 纬蔚谓喂维 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿蠋蟿蔚蟻畏 谓苇纬蟻喂魏畏 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 蟿蠅谓 蟺伪喂未喂魏蠋谓 蟿慰蠀 蠂蟻蠈谓蠅谓. 螝蟻伪蟿维蔚喂 魏蟻蠀蠁萎 蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿伪纬蠅纬萎 蟿慰蠀 伪魏蠈渭畏 魏伪喂 伪蟺慰 蟿畏 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰 魏伪喂 蟿伪 蟿苇蟽蟽蔚蟻伪 蟺伪喂未喂维 蟿慰蠀.
螝伪喂 蠁蟿维谓蔚喂 蟽伪蟻维谓蟿伪 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 渭蔚蟿维 谓伪 伪蟺慰尾维位位蔚蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 渭喂伪 伪谓蟿喂蟻伪蟿蟽喂蟽蟿喂魏萎 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 蟺慰蠀 蠀蟺蔚蟻伪蟽蟺委味蔚蟿伪喂 蟿伪 未喂魏维 蟿慰蠀 未喂魏伪喂蠋渭伪蟿伪. 危蟿慰 蟿苇蟻渭伪 蟿畏蟼 味蠅萎蟼 蟿慰蠀, 畏 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟿蠅谓 委蟽蠅谓 未喂魏伪喂蠅渭维蟿蠅谓 魏伪蟿畏纬慰蟻蔚委 蟿慰谓 谓苇纬蟻慰 蟽蠀谓蟿伪尉喂慰蠉蠂慰 魏慰蟽渭萎蟿慰蟻伪 蟺伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭委慰蠀 纬喂伪...蟻伪蟿蟽喂蟽蟿萎.
"螤慰喂伪 畏 喂蔚蟻慰蟿蔚位蔚蟽蟿委伪 蟿畏蟼 魏维胃伪蟻蟽畏蟼;
螤蠅蟼 纬委谓蔚蟿伪喂;
螠蔚 蔚尉慰蟽蟿蟻伪魏喂蟽渭蠈 萎 伪谓蟿伪蟺慰未委未慰谓蟿伪蟼
蟿慰 伪委渭伪 渭蔚 伪委渭伪".
危慰蠁慰魏位萎蟼,螣喂未委蟺慰蠀蟼 蟿蠉蟻伪谓谓慰蟼
螝伪位萎 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏
螁谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰喂 魏伪喂 螁谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰喂!!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 7, 2022
How does one review a book such as this? I need to be careful not to give anything away.
The Human Stain by Philip Roth fascinated me 鈥� Roth drilled down into each character in such detail a less talented author would have been accused of 鈥榖anging on鈥� too much. He moved around seamlessly between subjects and people, but the best for me, was the stream of surprises he threw in my face. Gosh moments.
This book is set in the mid to late 鈥�90s - America, the time when Billy Boy Clinton was engaging in vertical refreshments in The Oval Office 鈥� I still feel for Monica during that sordid episode - poor thing. Anyway, it was good to refresh one鈥檚 memory of the times 鈥� the great movie, American Beauty (when Spacey was still cool), Spice Girls (still cool 鈥� well Ginger is), post-Soviet Europe and the Internet was truly taking off 鈥� heady times indeed.
This is all about Coleman Silk, a Classics Academic, married, he has a handful of adult kids and is known as a leader in the academic community of Athena College in Massachusetts. However, recent events have seen him occupy less senior positions within the college. In fact, he is experiencing a downfall, a downfall in disgrace. He is close to retirement age 鈥� around seventy.
Anyway, Coleman is accused of using a racial slur when referring to some students. The veracity of this accusation is opaque to say the least, but either way 鈥� it has a profound impact in him and his reputation in the college and the community. This incident sparks a whole bunch of events that change his life, and the life of those around him forever.
Roth鈥檚 style reminded me somewhat of John Updike. Now, I鈥檓 not an expert on either writer, only read one work of the former and two of the latter 鈥� but to me, the resemblance is striking. So, if you stridently disagree 鈥� be gentle.
The characters in this book carry the day. They are complex and so, so human. I defy any reader not to identify with some (it will probably be many) character traits or references in this book. I certainly did.
So, we spend considerable time with Coleman (of course) and his parents, siblings, previous loves, and new ones. My word, his family was so real I almost picked up the phone. The author then dissects a fascinating woman called Faunia Farley, a janitor 鈥� supremely sexy and one of the most resilient, interesting, and attractive (I鈥檓 not focussing on just physical here) characters around. Then we get under the skin of Vietnam veteran Les Farley, oh my, what a soup of extremely messed-up viscera. We also meet Delphine Roux, the chic, intelligent, massively qualified but surprisingly insecure boss of Colemen Silk, in fact she occupies a position previously held by Colemen 鈥� a recipe for disaster, right? The interplay between Colemen and Delphine are brilliant 鈥� we have all seen the type of thing before.
My mind鈥檚 eye image of Delphine
Roth constructs each character with so much care, depth, and weight of history 鈥� I really did understand who they were. Oh my, I hope that makes sense 鈥� in other words, we all act in ways that are a product of our past, genetics and our environment (I believe) 鈥� and that鈥檚 the way it seems to be. Because, in a book like this we get to get inside each character in a very deep way, their behaviour makes sense. This even includes atrocious behaviour. We don鈥檛 need to like or support their actions, or the person 鈥� Roth arms us with the tools to understand. Well, that happened for me.
My mind鈥檚 eye image of Les Fearley
There is also the issue of how an institution of higher learning can groupthink in such a way as to ostracise a peer and orchestrate the downfall of a colleague based on such superficial, flimsy, evidence. I was surprised to witness a group of people act in a way one would expect from a bunch of adolescents. Perhaps this is what Colleges and Universities are like? 鈥� as is the case with many workplaces?
If you are still with me, Coleman harbours a massive secret It is worth waiting for.
This is a difficult review to write, there is no way one should spoil Roth鈥檚 traps and tricks. The depth of each character is such that a 500-word review cannot do any of them any justice. All I can say is if you haven鈥檛 read it 鈥� you must!!
5-Stars
ps. I was so vigorous with this paperback, as I reached the end, I had reduced the spine into a useless flaccid thing - and I was losing pages everywhere!! Caution to all potential readers :))
The Human Stain by Philip Roth fascinated me 鈥� Roth drilled down into each character in such detail a less talented author would have been accused of 鈥榖anging on鈥� too much. He moved around seamlessly between subjects and people, but the best for me, was the stream of surprises he threw in my face. Gosh moments.
This book is set in the mid to late 鈥�90s - America, the time when Billy Boy Clinton was engaging in vertical refreshments in The Oval Office 鈥� I still feel for Monica during that sordid episode - poor thing. Anyway, it was good to refresh one鈥檚 memory of the times 鈥� the great movie, American Beauty (when Spacey was still cool), Spice Girls (still cool 鈥� well Ginger is), post-Soviet Europe and the Internet was truly taking off 鈥� heady times indeed.
This is all about Coleman Silk, a Classics Academic, married, he has a handful of adult kids and is known as a leader in the academic community of Athena College in Massachusetts. However, recent events have seen him occupy less senior positions within the college. In fact, he is experiencing a downfall, a downfall in disgrace. He is close to retirement age 鈥� around seventy.
Anyway, Coleman is accused of using a racial slur when referring to some students. The veracity of this accusation is opaque to say the least, but either way 鈥� it has a profound impact in him and his reputation in the college and the community. This incident sparks a whole bunch of events that change his life, and the life of those around him forever.
Roth鈥檚 style reminded me somewhat of John Updike. Now, I鈥檓 not an expert on either writer, only read one work of the former and two of the latter 鈥� but to me, the resemblance is striking. So, if you stridently disagree 鈥� be gentle.
The characters in this book carry the day. They are complex and so, so human. I defy any reader not to identify with some (it will probably be many) character traits or references in this book. I certainly did.
So, we spend considerable time with Coleman (of course) and his parents, siblings, previous loves, and new ones. My word, his family was so real I almost picked up the phone. The author then dissects a fascinating woman called Faunia Farley, a janitor 鈥� supremely sexy and one of the most resilient, interesting, and attractive (I鈥檓 not focussing on just physical here) characters around. Then we get under the skin of Vietnam veteran Les Farley, oh my, what a soup of extremely messed-up viscera. We also meet Delphine Roux, the chic, intelligent, massively qualified but surprisingly insecure boss of Colemen Silk, in fact she occupies a position previously held by Colemen 鈥� a recipe for disaster, right? The interplay between Colemen and Delphine are brilliant 鈥� we have all seen the type of thing before.
My mind鈥檚 eye image of Delphine
Roth constructs each character with so much care, depth, and weight of history 鈥� I really did understand who they were. Oh my, I hope that makes sense 鈥� in other words, we all act in ways that are a product of our past, genetics and our environment (I believe) 鈥� and that鈥檚 the way it seems to be. Because, in a book like this we get to get inside each character in a very deep way, their behaviour makes sense. This even includes atrocious behaviour. We don鈥檛 need to like or support their actions, or the person 鈥� Roth arms us with the tools to understand. Well, that happened for me.
My mind鈥檚 eye image of Les Fearley
There is also the issue of how an institution of higher learning can groupthink in such a way as to ostracise a peer and orchestrate the downfall of a colleague based on such superficial, flimsy, evidence. I was surprised to witness a group of people act in a way one would expect from a bunch of adolescents. Perhaps this is what Colleges and Universities are like? 鈥� as is the case with many workplaces?
If you are still with me, Coleman harbours a massive secret It is worth waiting for.
This is a difficult review to write, there is no way one should spoil Roth鈥檚 traps and tricks. The depth of each character is such that a 500-word review cannot do any of them any justice. All I can say is if you haven鈥檛 read it 鈥� you must!!
5-Stars
ps. I was so vigorous with this paperback, as I reached the end, I had reduced the spine into a useless flaccid thing - and I was losing pages everywhere!! Caution to all potential readers :))
September 3, 2007
Hey Roth, I know you have a great vocabulary...Just tell me a damn story.
Let me explain: I just read a very positive review of this book stating that Roth has such an expansive vocabulary, and every word seems painstakingly chosen, etc. That is exactly what I hate about this book! A narrative is supposed to flow, not make you resolve to study the dictionary more fastidiously.
For the record, I have a pretty good vocabulary and I thorouoghly enjoy creative uses of the English language. But I despise the use of overly academic, deliberately "highbrow" language when something simple would tell the story better. The problem is NOT that I didn't understand this book, it is that the plot just does not flow at all. I really dislike this book.
It looks as though this is a pretty unpopular opinion, but oh well.
Let me explain: I just read a very positive review of this book stating that Roth has such an expansive vocabulary, and every word seems painstakingly chosen, etc. That is exactly what I hate about this book! A narrative is supposed to flow, not make you resolve to study the dictionary more fastidiously.
For the record, I have a pretty good vocabulary and I thorouoghly enjoy creative uses of the English language. But I despise the use of overly academic, deliberately "highbrow" language when something simple would tell the story better. The problem is NOT that I didn't understand this book, it is that the plot just does not flow at all. I really dislike this book.
It looks as though this is a pretty unpopular opinion, but oh well.
August 11, 2015
Ho da pochi minuti terminato la lettura de 鈥淟a macchia umana鈥� di Philip Roth.
Ci sono quei libri che si insinuano all鈥檌nterno del tuo consolidato nido di credenze, idee, saperi, pregiudizi, convinzioni - che hai fortificato con fatica e scrupolosa dedizione in vent鈥檃nni di scuola, vita familiare, cadute e ripartenze sentimentali - e sai gi脿 che non c鈥櫭� pi霉 nulla da fare. Arrivano per scombussolare tutto, tocca ricostruire il castello di carta della tua identit脿 da capo.
Sono libri alteri, sdegnosi. Non smetterai mai di consigliarli, di parlarne, di instaurare confronti e soprattutto li rileggerai. Probabilmente subito dopo averli terminati, li ricomincerai. Questo 猫 il destino fortunato di libri come 鈥淟a macchia umana鈥�.
Il mio primo Roth. Considerato uno dei pi霉 grandi scrittori viventi, vittima felice del totoNobel praticamente ogni anno, scatenato, chiacchieratissimo Roth. Ho sempre nutrito un timore reverenziale (vi rassicuro: non c鈥櫭� ragione) verso queste figure della letteratura. Acquistano un鈥檃ria familiare, il loro nome - dappertutto letto, dappertutto udito - diventa quasi una sagoma. Roth, in particolare, con le sue consonanti finali, due arroganti fricative dentali, me lo immagino sempre con una giacca di lana cotta, modello coloniale, con le sopracciglia aggrottate, propenso verso di me come un grosso rapace ma dallo sguardo ironico.
Si dia il caso che l鈥檃utore Roth sembri (e badate, sembrare 猫 un verbo spietato) rassomigliare straordinariamente ai personaggi che raffigura. Vi avverto, prima di scrivere non ho cercato informazioni biografiche, n茅 recensioni n茅 alcun tipo di materiale a supporto di questa tesi. Semplicemente sembra cos矛. Da lettrice, vedo che Coleman Silk 猫 simile al suo artefice e l鈥檃utore si limita, come dire, a quest鈥檕pera di svelamento e occultamento continuo dello specchio. 猫 cos矛 vicino, cos矛 vicino all鈥檈ssenza del personaggio che dev鈥檈ssere lui. Sappiamo che lo scrittore deve essere un abilissimo fingitore ma siccome io non credo ad un鈥檃bilit脿 portentosa nel dissimulare che sia completamente disinteressata, devo pensare che il demone a cui risponde il signor Roth sia di natura personale. Non esiste che si vada cos矛 a fondo ad un personaggio senza che ci sia qualcosa di tuo. E tutta quella storia sulla necessit脿 del testimone - perch茅 il resoconto della faccenda qui ci viene fornito dallo scrittore Nathan Zuckerman - 猫 una grossa panzana e qui si sta parlando di un meraviglioso alter ego. Anzi di due: Nathan Zuckerman, narratore degli eventi, e il coetaneo Coleman Silk, nella parte del povero viveur. La testimone unica 猫 la scrittura. L鈥檃utore per proteggersi deve inventarsi delle maschere ma sappiamo tutti che razza di narcisi egocentrici siano, con noi non attacca.
D鈥檃ltra parte, non credo che lavorando di fantasia il signor Roth sarebbe stato in grado di arrivare a tali vette di autenticit脿. Il protagonista dunque 猫 una personalit脿 formidabile e cos矛 il suo creatore. Ora possiamo addentrarci nel fitto della foresta nera.
Continua qui
Ci sono quei libri che si insinuano all鈥檌nterno del tuo consolidato nido di credenze, idee, saperi, pregiudizi, convinzioni - che hai fortificato con fatica e scrupolosa dedizione in vent鈥檃nni di scuola, vita familiare, cadute e ripartenze sentimentali - e sai gi脿 che non c鈥櫭� pi霉 nulla da fare. Arrivano per scombussolare tutto, tocca ricostruire il castello di carta della tua identit脿 da capo.
Sono libri alteri, sdegnosi. Non smetterai mai di consigliarli, di parlarne, di instaurare confronti e soprattutto li rileggerai. Probabilmente subito dopo averli terminati, li ricomincerai. Questo 猫 il destino fortunato di libri come 鈥淟a macchia umana鈥�.
Il mio primo Roth. Considerato uno dei pi霉 grandi scrittori viventi, vittima felice del totoNobel praticamente ogni anno, scatenato, chiacchieratissimo Roth. Ho sempre nutrito un timore reverenziale (vi rassicuro: non c鈥櫭� ragione) verso queste figure della letteratura. Acquistano un鈥檃ria familiare, il loro nome - dappertutto letto, dappertutto udito - diventa quasi una sagoma. Roth, in particolare, con le sue consonanti finali, due arroganti fricative dentali, me lo immagino sempre con una giacca di lana cotta, modello coloniale, con le sopracciglia aggrottate, propenso verso di me come un grosso rapace ma dallo sguardo ironico.
Si dia il caso che l鈥檃utore Roth sembri (e badate, sembrare 猫 un verbo spietato) rassomigliare straordinariamente ai personaggi che raffigura. Vi avverto, prima di scrivere non ho cercato informazioni biografiche, n茅 recensioni n茅 alcun tipo di materiale a supporto di questa tesi. Semplicemente sembra cos矛. Da lettrice, vedo che Coleman Silk 猫 simile al suo artefice e l鈥檃utore si limita, come dire, a quest鈥檕pera di svelamento e occultamento continuo dello specchio. 猫 cos矛 vicino, cos矛 vicino all鈥檈ssenza del personaggio che dev鈥檈ssere lui. Sappiamo che lo scrittore deve essere un abilissimo fingitore ma siccome io non credo ad un鈥檃bilit脿 portentosa nel dissimulare che sia completamente disinteressata, devo pensare che il demone a cui risponde il signor Roth sia di natura personale. Non esiste che si vada cos矛 a fondo ad un personaggio senza che ci sia qualcosa di tuo. E tutta quella storia sulla necessit脿 del testimone - perch茅 il resoconto della faccenda qui ci viene fornito dallo scrittore Nathan Zuckerman - 猫 una grossa panzana e qui si sta parlando di un meraviglioso alter ego. Anzi di due: Nathan Zuckerman, narratore degli eventi, e il coetaneo Coleman Silk, nella parte del povero viveur. La testimone unica 猫 la scrittura. L鈥檃utore per proteggersi deve inventarsi delle maschere ma sappiamo tutti che razza di narcisi egocentrici siano, con noi non attacca.
D鈥檃ltra parte, non credo che lavorando di fantasia il signor Roth sarebbe stato in grado di arrivare a tali vette di autenticit脿. Il protagonista dunque 猫 una personalit脿 formidabile e cos矛 il suo creatore. Ora possiamo addentrarci nel fitto della foresta nera.
Continua qui
September 18, 2017
See, I was an enormous fan of the Tony Hopkins/ Nicky Kidman film already. But incredibly, that adapatation was just the tip of an iceburg so rich, complex & incredible that is Philip Roth's masterpiece "The Human Stain." The film fails oh-so miserably to fulfill at least 40% of the emotional clout (which is significant and HEAVVVY) famously attributed to this, a gargantuan beauty of a book.
It seems that this late in the year, the magic wand waved by Literature is (constantly and repeatedly) still dabbing this dreary moment of living history with its good work: I've read at least four sure MASTERPIECES this year. 2010: not so bad after all.
Roth meshes history with modern tragedy; parallels that* with the goings on of a disgraced college professor; the torrid love affair is placed in the backdrop; the national consciousness is the Theme, as is the sadness in people living (or pretending to live) in modern times. I fell in LOVE with this book (difficult, academic, and witty) for its dimension and its crisp flavor. All characters are worthy of at least a few tears for Roth has so faithfully captured how the country fucks people over (and over, & over) and how the price of freedom means the loss of something perhaps as equally important.
If the film is above average, then the novel, a modern Bovary-esque tale with so much personality and imbedded tragedy in it to make it worthy of a faithful readership for the decades that are to come, (so modern and CLASSIC it is!) is quite simply (no joke) FLAW-LESS.
* The Clinton/Lewinski scandal--all but forgotten (and perhaps its important to notice, too, that that disgrace, though not quite so far long ago, has been already buried under so many others...)
It seems that this late in the year, the magic wand waved by Literature is (constantly and repeatedly) still dabbing this dreary moment of living history with its good work: I've read at least four sure MASTERPIECES this year. 2010: not so bad after all.
Roth meshes history with modern tragedy; parallels that* with the goings on of a disgraced college professor; the torrid love affair is placed in the backdrop; the national consciousness is the Theme, as is the sadness in people living (or pretending to live) in modern times. I fell in LOVE with this book (difficult, academic, and witty) for its dimension and its crisp flavor. All characters are worthy of at least a few tears for Roth has so faithfully captured how the country fucks people over (and over, & over) and how the price of freedom means the loss of something perhaps as equally important.
If the film is above average, then the novel, a modern Bovary-esque tale with so much personality and imbedded tragedy in it to make it worthy of a faithful readership for the decades that are to come, (so modern and CLASSIC it is!) is quite simply (no joke) FLAW-LESS.
* The Clinton/Lewinski scandal--all but forgotten (and perhaps its important to notice, too, that that disgrace, though not quite so far long ago, has been already buried under so many others...)
July 13, 2024
I repost this because The New York Times has two of Philip Roth's (RIP) novels on their list of 100 best novels of the 21st century, at the one quarter-century mark: The Human Stain and The Plot Against America.
I read Roth鈥檚 Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy鈥檚 Complaint in college, and loved them. They were funny, especially in depicting the lusts and lives of young men, with literary flair. But I didn鈥檛 read him too often after that for no particular reason until relatively recently. Maybe it was something to do with my feeling tired of reading the same Roth main character, book after book, an aggressive male consumed by lust. But then I happened to read the non-fiction Patrimony, about his relationship with his father, and The Plot Against America, a dark fantasy about a possible past where we chose a fascist dictator--Charles Lindberg--in the thirties instead of FDR, and liked these books very much, so I thought maybe I'd take a closer look at his work again. So I have read several Roth novels now.
And now having completed his Nathan Zuckerman trilogy, beginning with the much-acknowledged masterpiece, American Pastoral, which I loved, and I Married a Communist, which I also came to like very much, I see the greatness of this trilogy, which like the Plot Against America, has to do with its attention to the sweep of twentieth-century American history, with some central social issues of each period examined in the context of often deeply flawed characters. It鈥檚 also about Roth鈥檚 use of language, at once visceral and muscular and startlingly honest in places, and more often than not lyrical at the same time. And talk. All the characters talk (and think like they're talking) in grand, sometimes manic, fashion. Epic verbal sparring and reflection.
The Human Stain took its time for me to warm up to, but grew on me, and then ended with me shouting hurrah as it concluded. It鈥檚 the story of three interlocking tragic stories: New England Athena College Classics professor and Dean Coleman Silk is forced out of his job at age 69 for supposed racist comments about two students; his 34-year-old girlfriend Faunia Farley whom he takes up with after his wife dies of complications from a stroke, and her ex, a PTSD-riddled Vietnam vet, each of them finally at least somewhat understandable if not completely sympathetic, but morally culpable and doomed by their own terrible mistakes. It鈥檚 primarily the story of Silk, and his secrets and lies, but especially of one central secret which led to terrible mistakes he made in the context of America鈥檚 racial past (and present). The legacies of racism and war and shame are at the heart of this book, how you can never really get free of them. You do some bad things and you pay and pay for them, no matter what good you may do.
The inciting impulse for the novel, set in 1998, (but only part of its motivation, finally) is the Clinton Impeachment trial, and on one level the book is an examination of all that sexual sanctimony through the lens of secrets and lies and the rest of us speculating about all public scandals as most of us typically do: Are they really "doing it"? What positions do they use?! Who's using whom? Should we impeach a guy for that?! We all watched what I and my friends thought then were ludicrous proceedings, the end of the sexual revolution being televised, with all these hypocrites pointing fingers at him so we wouldn't point at them.
鈥淚t was the summer in America when the nausea returned, when the joking didn't stop, when the speculation and the theorizing and the hyperbole didn't stop鈥濃€擱oth on the Clinton impeachment trial, which became of national interest, but also on Silk鈥檚 affair with Faunia, which becomes a small town scandal that same summer. And at first this book reads like it is a gripe about cancel cutlure, until it becomes much more than that.
This book can make you uncomfortable. When Zuckerman and Silk joke crudely about the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, it鈥檚 funny, but there are no filters here. No filters, either, when the damaged and abusive Farley threatens to explode about the 鈥渄raft dodger鈥� 鈥渟lick Willie鈥� getting off free when so many Vets died in the jungle so he could get what he got from more than just Monica Lewinsky. These are all deeply flawed, screwed-up people, but they are never uninteresting. The two men, Silk and Fawley, are driven by rage, by hatred, for what has happened to them (Silk is pushed out of his position on the faculty because of something he said that people mistakenly assume is racist, and during this period his wife has a stroke and dies, so he is enraged about all that; Fawley is angry and bitter about his experiences in Nam, but):
鈥淭he danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop鈥濃€擱oth
This book is not just about "gossip" about who's doing what to whom, sexually, though. It's also about racial secrets. Does that white guy look a little bit black? Could he be "passing" for white? If so, what are we going to do about that??! Because we need these classifications for some reason, it seems. And what if you were "technically black," but looked white; would you choose to say you were black to be true to that legacy or would you say you were white so you could more easily achieve "the American Dream"? You read this novel in part about race through the lens of an Obama birther story, the light-skinned Kamala Harris, the Native American controversy around Elizabeth Warren, and so on. The continuing national obsession with race and color.
When I was done I thought that Zuckerman is to Silk as Nick Carraway is to Gatsby, albeit a cruder, more visceral Nick/Gatsby combo. Here Zuckerman speaks of what he imagines to be Silk鈥檚 goal: 鈥淭o become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies America's story, the high drama that is upping and leaving鈥攁nd the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands.鈥� Sounds a little like Gatsby, right?
The stories we read of Silk and Faunia and Fawley are stories told by writer Zuckerman, so we (meta-fictionally) reflect through the telling on the way any novelist鈥檚 imagination can work its magic. But Zuckerman makes it clear that neither the novelist nor any of his readers, when we are done with this story, will have any really deep insights into human nature beyond this:
鈥淭here is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies鈥濃€擱oth
Zuckerman and Roth as novelists are not preachers, they are not social scientists; they only have their imaginations, and hunches; they can describe these fascinating, screwed-up people, and they can hypothesize, but they make it clear we鈥檙e all unknowable at some deep level. Even when he finds out all he can know to inform his telling of Silk鈥檚 story, the novel he writes, The Human Stain, Zuckerman says:
鈥淣ow that I know everything, it was though I knew nothing鈥濃€擱oth
We look at others, we look at the world, and what we are left with is mystery, or a set of them, but a sense, too, of being highly entertained, having achieved a level of intensity that equals any of the other great Roth novels. I highly recommend this book. You don鈥檛 need to need to have read the first two to read this one, but the whole trilogy is great if you want to put it on your tbr list!
I read Roth鈥檚 Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy鈥檚 Complaint in college, and loved them. They were funny, especially in depicting the lusts and lives of young men, with literary flair. But I didn鈥檛 read him too often after that for no particular reason until relatively recently. Maybe it was something to do with my feeling tired of reading the same Roth main character, book after book, an aggressive male consumed by lust. But then I happened to read the non-fiction Patrimony, about his relationship with his father, and The Plot Against America, a dark fantasy about a possible past where we chose a fascist dictator--Charles Lindberg--in the thirties instead of FDR, and liked these books very much, so I thought maybe I'd take a closer look at his work again. So I have read several Roth novels now.
And now having completed his Nathan Zuckerman trilogy, beginning with the much-acknowledged masterpiece, American Pastoral, which I loved, and I Married a Communist, which I also came to like very much, I see the greatness of this trilogy, which like the Plot Against America, has to do with its attention to the sweep of twentieth-century American history, with some central social issues of each period examined in the context of often deeply flawed characters. It鈥檚 also about Roth鈥檚 use of language, at once visceral and muscular and startlingly honest in places, and more often than not lyrical at the same time. And talk. All the characters talk (and think like they're talking) in grand, sometimes manic, fashion. Epic verbal sparring and reflection.
The Human Stain took its time for me to warm up to, but grew on me, and then ended with me shouting hurrah as it concluded. It鈥檚 the story of three interlocking tragic stories: New England Athena College Classics professor and Dean Coleman Silk is forced out of his job at age 69 for supposed racist comments about two students; his 34-year-old girlfriend Faunia Farley whom he takes up with after his wife dies of complications from a stroke, and her ex, a PTSD-riddled Vietnam vet, each of them finally at least somewhat understandable if not completely sympathetic, but morally culpable and doomed by their own terrible mistakes. It鈥檚 primarily the story of Silk, and his secrets and lies, but especially of one central secret which led to terrible mistakes he made in the context of America鈥檚 racial past (and present). The legacies of racism and war and shame are at the heart of this book, how you can never really get free of them. You do some bad things and you pay and pay for them, no matter what good you may do.
The inciting impulse for the novel, set in 1998, (but only part of its motivation, finally) is the Clinton Impeachment trial, and on one level the book is an examination of all that sexual sanctimony through the lens of secrets and lies and the rest of us speculating about all public scandals as most of us typically do: Are they really "doing it"? What positions do they use?! Who's using whom? Should we impeach a guy for that?! We all watched what I and my friends thought then were ludicrous proceedings, the end of the sexual revolution being televised, with all these hypocrites pointing fingers at him so we wouldn't point at them.
鈥淚t was the summer in America when the nausea returned, when the joking didn't stop, when the speculation and the theorizing and the hyperbole didn't stop鈥濃€擱oth on the Clinton impeachment trial, which became of national interest, but also on Silk鈥檚 affair with Faunia, which becomes a small town scandal that same summer. And at first this book reads like it is a gripe about cancel cutlure, until it becomes much more than that.
This book can make you uncomfortable. When Zuckerman and Silk joke crudely about the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, it鈥檚 funny, but there are no filters here. No filters, either, when the damaged and abusive Farley threatens to explode about the 鈥渄raft dodger鈥� 鈥渟lick Willie鈥� getting off free when so many Vets died in the jungle so he could get what he got from more than just Monica Lewinsky. These are all deeply flawed, screwed-up people, but they are never uninteresting. The two men, Silk and Fawley, are driven by rage, by hatred, for what has happened to them (Silk is pushed out of his position on the faculty because of something he said that people mistakenly assume is racist, and during this period his wife has a stroke and dies, so he is enraged about all that; Fawley is angry and bitter about his experiences in Nam, but):
鈥淭he danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop鈥濃€擱oth
This book is not just about "gossip" about who's doing what to whom, sexually, though. It's also about racial secrets. Does that white guy look a little bit black? Could he be "passing" for white? If so, what are we going to do about that??! Because we need these classifications for some reason, it seems. And what if you were "technically black," but looked white; would you choose to say you were black to be true to that legacy or would you say you were white so you could more easily achieve "the American Dream"? You read this novel in part about race through the lens of an Obama birther story, the light-skinned Kamala Harris, the Native American controversy around Elizabeth Warren, and so on. The continuing national obsession with race and color.
When I was done I thought that Zuckerman is to Silk as Nick Carraway is to Gatsby, albeit a cruder, more visceral Nick/Gatsby combo. Here Zuckerman speaks of what he imagines to be Silk鈥檚 goal: 鈥淭o become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies America's story, the high drama that is upping and leaving鈥攁nd the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands.鈥� Sounds a little like Gatsby, right?
The stories we read of Silk and Faunia and Fawley are stories told by writer Zuckerman, so we (meta-fictionally) reflect through the telling on the way any novelist鈥檚 imagination can work its magic. But Zuckerman makes it clear that neither the novelist nor any of his readers, when we are done with this story, will have any really deep insights into human nature beyond this:
鈥淭here is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies鈥濃€擱oth
Zuckerman and Roth as novelists are not preachers, they are not social scientists; they only have their imaginations, and hunches; they can describe these fascinating, screwed-up people, and they can hypothesize, but they make it clear we鈥檙e all unknowable at some deep level. Even when he finds out all he can know to inform his telling of Silk鈥檚 story, the novel he writes, The Human Stain, Zuckerman says:
鈥淣ow that I know everything, it was though I knew nothing鈥濃€擱oth
We look at others, we look at the world, and what we are left with is mystery, or a set of them, but a sense, too, of being highly entertained, having achieved a level of intensity that equals any of the other great Roth novels. I highly recommend this book. You don鈥檛 need to need to have read the first two to read this one, but the whole trilogy is great if you want to put it on your tbr list!
November 21, 2020
The author sums it up perfectly on page 81
"You area a verbal master of extroadinary loquatiousness[P. Roth]. So Perspicatios. So fluent. A vocal master of the endless, ostentatious overelaborate sentence."
Yup.
This book is the Jackson Pollock of our literary time. Just spatter everything all over the page and call it art. Roth goes on and on by using every single adjective he ever learned in his SAT class, in a row, then completely counters every argument he just made, so he can use all the opposite words he knows. ITs OBNOXIOUS. I've read reviews about how each word seems painstakingly chosen. Its painful alright, for the reader. I don't think the author made any choices. TO choose the implies you would select one word or phrase to the exclusion of another. He uses ALL OF THEM.
This guy is the master of the tripple negative (You are not so unshrewed as not to know it.. p195) but not quite as good at it as he is at using ellipses, dashes and commas to create an entire page of run on sentence that is, none the less, gramatically correct, and here the real skill- its also pointless. He makes Melville seem to the point and full of rich coloqiolism and contemporary dialect.
he goes on for a full page to discuss a scene he has already earlier described about milking cows, he uses every verb and adjective that can even be remotely related to a cow, then proceeds to contradict himself (as he does often) just to put in more words, negate the meaning of the word immidiately preceeding it then relate it to sex and subjugation.
".. the human and bovine, the highly differentiated and the all but undifferentiated, to live, not merely to endure, but to live, to go on taking, feeding, milking, acknowleging wholeharetedly, the enigma that it is, the pointless meaningfulness of living- all was recorded as real by tens of thousands of minute impressions. The sensory fullness, the copiousness, the abundant- superabundant-detail of life which is the rhapsody"
BULLSHIT. Pointless meaninfullness? Full, copious, abundant,and then we needed superabundant- as if his point in unclear? Well his point is unclear. This is the rhapsody? What rhapsody? I dont know if he's trying to show off, or insult me, like I dont know what the first three mean, or maybe I have to read it three, oh, wait, no 4 times to get the point. What is this? a 9th grad vocab test? You're kidding, right?
how about this crap:
"Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understand before, how easily a life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made... on the other hand, how accidental fate may seem when things can never turn out other than they do. That is, he walked away understanding nothing, knowing he could understand nothing, though with the illusion that he WOULD have metaphysically understood somthing of emormous importance about the stubborn determination of his to become his own man... if only such things were understandable."
I'm pretty sure in this case the author meant to convey the character's confusion- but I'm too confused to say for sure. Did you watch? Because that's a SINGLE SENTENCE that took me forever to copy from the book, letter for letter.
The author is so obnoxios, he regularly references characters from Euripides by name only - do you know anyone familiar with the characters of Euripides ancient greek plays? How about Aschenback and Tadzio? Herodotus? How about some general concepts. Most people know ethos, pathos, logos, but how about"The difference between diegesis and mimesis?" He seems to be trying to satorize his characters in the book, to make them seem obnoxious, overeducated and socially innept, secretly insecure which requires they blather on dropping names and fancy words. It works, except that its not just one or two characters. He does it constantly himself- in the authors own narration- as if his point wasnt already so obfuscated you have to go back through 2 pages, six dashes, a dozen commas, a hanful of ellipses to find where the sentence begins and remember what he was talking about.
"You area a verbal master of extroadinary loquatiousness[P. Roth]. So Perspicatios. So fluent. A vocal master of the endless, ostentatious overelaborate sentence."
Yup.
This book is the Jackson Pollock of our literary time. Just spatter everything all over the page and call it art. Roth goes on and on by using every single adjective he ever learned in his SAT class, in a row, then completely counters every argument he just made, so he can use all the opposite words he knows. ITs OBNOXIOUS. I've read reviews about how each word seems painstakingly chosen. Its painful alright, for the reader. I don't think the author made any choices. TO choose the implies you would select one word or phrase to the exclusion of another. He uses ALL OF THEM.
This guy is the master of the tripple negative (You are not so unshrewed as not to know it.. p195) but not quite as good at it as he is at using ellipses, dashes and commas to create an entire page of run on sentence that is, none the less, gramatically correct, and here the real skill- its also pointless. He makes Melville seem to the point and full of rich coloqiolism and contemporary dialect.
he goes on for a full page to discuss a scene he has already earlier described about milking cows, he uses every verb and adjective that can even be remotely related to a cow, then proceeds to contradict himself (as he does often) just to put in more words, negate the meaning of the word immidiately preceeding it then relate it to sex and subjugation.
".. the human and bovine, the highly differentiated and the all but undifferentiated, to live, not merely to endure, but to live, to go on taking, feeding, milking, acknowleging wholeharetedly, the enigma that it is, the pointless meaningfulness of living- all was recorded as real by tens of thousands of minute impressions. The sensory fullness, the copiousness, the abundant- superabundant-detail of life which is the rhapsody"
BULLSHIT. Pointless meaninfullness? Full, copious, abundant,and then we needed superabundant- as if his point in unclear? Well his point is unclear. This is the rhapsody? What rhapsody? I dont know if he's trying to show off, or insult me, like I dont know what the first three mean, or maybe I have to read it three, oh, wait, no 4 times to get the point. What is this? a 9th grad vocab test? You're kidding, right?
how about this crap:
"Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understand before, how easily a life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made... on the other hand, how accidental fate may seem when things can never turn out other than they do. That is, he walked away understanding nothing, knowing he could understand nothing, though with the illusion that he WOULD have metaphysically understood somthing of emormous importance about the stubborn determination of his to become his own man... if only such things were understandable."
I'm pretty sure in this case the author meant to convey the character's confusion- but I'm too confused to say for sure. Did you watch? Because that's a SINGLE SENTENCE that took me forever to copy from the book, letter for letter.
The author is so obnoxios, he regularly references characters from Euripides by name only - do you know anyone familiar with the characters of Euripides ancient greek plays? How about Aschenback and Tadzio? Herodotus? How about some general concepts. Most people know ethos, pathos, logos, but how about"The difference between diegesis and mimesis?" He seems to be trying to satorize his characters in the book, to make them seem obnoxious, overeducated and socially innept, secretly insecure which requires they blather on dropping names and fancy words. It works, except that its not just one or two characters. He does it constantly himself- in the authors own narration- as if his point wasnt already so obfuscated you have to go back through 2 pages, six dashes, a dozen commas, a hanful of ellipses to find where the sentence begins and remember what he was talking about.
February 14, 2022
3.5 stars. Agreed, there are some things about reading Philip Roth that are really irritating: his sometimes excessive wordiness, his fixation on elder men who are obsessed with sex (whether or not prostate-related), his storylines that are regularly interrupted by the introduction of new characters with extensive biographical backgrounds, etc. But - after having read 4 works of Roth - I have to confess I'm really getting under his spell. I'm especially impressed by how deep Roth can plunge into the soul of a character, and how he illustrates the human inability to really know how things are, or how it is impossible to really know another, even very close person. And what always returns: his main characters again and again deceive themselves, more than they do others; they all build their lives on deliberate or unconscious lies or faulty obsessions. Roth is a real late-twentieth-century Balzac, put in a very typical eastern-coast, jewish context.
In 'The Human Stain' all these typical ingredients are included, both the annoying and the impressive ones. I'm not going to start a synopsis, because then I have to give away the plot. Let me merely state that the main character is a man, Coleman Silk, who breaks with his past and completely builds his own identity based on a big secret, but he also goes down because of that secret. This sounds like a Greek tragedy, and that is no coincidence: the protagonist is a professor of classical languages.
Along the way Roth gives ample examples of his stylistic and psychological mastership. Just one take (page 335): "The man who decides to forge a distinct historical destiny, who sets out to spring the historical lock, and who does so, brilliantly succeeds at altering his personal lot, only to be ensnared by the history he hadn鈥檛 quite counted on: the history that isn鈥檛 yet history, the history that the clock is now ticking off, the history proliferating as I write, accruing a minute at a time and grasped better by the future than it will ever be by us. The we that is inescapable: the present moment, the common lot, the current mood, the mind of one鈥檚 country, the stranglehold of history that is one鈥檚 own time. Blindsided by the terrifyingly provisional nature of everything." Now, can anyone grasp reality better than this?
Furthermore, in this book there are a few really enticing female characters (Steena, Faunia) that markedly adjust Roth's reputation as a portraitist of stubborn elder men. And I do agree, the story sometimes falters; master works like and the unruly were much more homogeneous than this one. But despite all the critical remarks one can make, I think I'm finally going to rank Roth among my favorite authors.
In 'The Human Stain' all these typical ingredients are included, both the annoying and the impressive ones. I'm not going to start a synopsis, because then I have to give away the plot. Let me merely state that the main character is a man, Coleman Silk, who breaks with his past and completely builds his own identity based on a big secret, but he also goes down because of that secret. This sounds like a Greek tragedy, and that is no coincidence: the protagonist is a professor of classical languages.
Along the way Roth gives ample examples of his stylistic and psychological mastership. Just one take (page 335): "The man who decides to forge a distinct historical destiny, who sets out to spring the historical lock, and who does so, brilliantly succeeds at altering his personal lot, only to be ensnared by the history he hadn鈥檛 quite counted on: the history that isn鈥檛 yet history, the history that the clock is now ticking off, the history proliferating as I write, accruing a minute at a time and grasped better by the future than it will ever be by us. The we that is inescapable: the present moment, the common lot, the current mood, the mind of one鈥檚 country, the stranglehold of history that is one鈥檚 own time. Blindsided by the terrifyingly provisional nature of everything." Now, can anyone grasp reality better than this?
Furthermore, in this book there are a few really enticing female characters (Steena, Faunia) that markedly adjust Roth's reputation as a portraitist of stubborn elder men. And I do agree, the story sometimes falters; master works like and the unruly were much more homogeneous than this one. But despite all the critical remarks one can make, I think I'm finally going to rank Roth among my favorite authors.
May 24, 2018
Shaming Censors of Academic Speech: A Pox on the PC Police
My favorite Roth novel. I will miss the lusty old tale-hound.
鈥淚'm very depressed how in this country you can be told 'That's offensive' as though those two words constitute an argument.鈥� Christopher Hitchens
Coleman Silk, a professor of classics at a local esteemed college, has been accused of racism by two African American students in one of his classes, after he notices upon calling roll that these two enrolled students never attend his class, and mumbles : "Do they exist or are they spooks?"
Roth brilliantly uses the most ambiguous of words due to its several legitimate meanings compared to the one meaning racially derogatory to African Americans. Wikipedia's most comprehensive definition indicates the term's many meanings, a few of which fit the context of the professor's statement, only one of which is the racially offensive, pejorative use. The primary other use which appears to fit the context unless some evidence of a racial animus could be shown is of an apparition who is present but cannot be seen. This latter meaning is in fact its primary English meaning since its etymology revolves around various references to "ghost" or "apparition": cognate Dutch spook (鈥済host"), Middle Dutch spooc (鈥渟pook, ghost"); liken German Spuk (鈥済host, apparition"), Middle Low German spok (鈥渟pook"), and Norwegian spjok (鈥済host, specter").
Silk says he used the word "spook" to sarcastically imply the "possibility" that the students might be attending as ghosts or spirits. That, since they did not attend class and he didn't know who they were, he could not even know their race.
I won't get too sidetracked on "political correctness" run amok in this country, particularly in academia, and misused as a tool amounting to censorship, but I'll footnote excellent, reasoned quotes from a nonfiction book about the cultural revolution changing this country since the 1960s as well as two late iconoclastic hyper-intellectuals: David Foster Wallace and Christopher Hitchens.**
The narrator is Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman. Roth based the novel on an incident involving his friend, a professor at Princeton University. Silk resigns his post in anger and raises the stakes (and ire of campus feminists) when he starts dating an illiterate, but intelligent, female custodian who's about 30 years younger than he is (she's 34). She has a former lover who has serious "issues" arising from his stint in Vietnam.
The piercing irony is in Silk's disclosure that he is an African American who's been "passing" as Jewish and white since he served in the Navy. He married a white woman and had 4 children with her. His wife recently died and he never told her or the children of his/their ancestry. Silk decided to "take the future into his own hands rather than to leave it to an unenlightened society to determine his fate." Zuckerman frames novel and retells the back story in flashbacks as conveyed to him by Silk.
Against a present backdrop of the 1998 Oval Office Orgasm Scandal of former President Bill Clinton, Roth develops what I believe is his best novel, one raising trusty old questions of identity and self-invention, i.e., questions of whether one can change the past (Gatsby) or whether the past is ever even past (Faulkner in Requiem for a Nun). Two passages on these issues that I considered especially poignant were:
____________________________________
**Footnote on Political Correctness
From Roger Kimball, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America:
鈥淎s with most revolutions, the counterculture's call for total freedom quickly turned into a demand for total control. The phenomenon of 'political correctness', with its speech codes and other efforts to enforce ideological conformity, was one predictable result of this transformation. What began at the University of California at Berkeley with the Free Speech Movement (called by some the 'Filthy Speech Movement'} soon degenerated into an effort to abridge freedom by dictating what could and could not be said about any number of politically sensitive issues.鈥�
From David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays:
鈥淭here's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact--in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself--of vast[ ] ... help to conservatives and the US status quo.... Were I, for instance, a political conservative who opposed using taxation as a means of redistributing national wealth, I would be delighted to watch PC progressives spend their time and energy arguing over whether a poor person should be described as "low-income" or "economically disadvantaged" or "pre-prosperous" rather than constructing effective public arguments for redistributive legislation or higher marginal tax rates. [...] In other words, PCE acts as a form of censorship, and censorship always serves the status quo.鈥�
My favorite Roth novel. I will miss the lusty old tale-hound.
鈥淚'm very depressed how in this country you can be told 'That's offensive' as though those two words constitute an argument.鈥� Christopher Hitchens
Coleman Silk, a professor of classics at a local esteemed college, has been accused of racism by two African American students in one of his classes, after he notices upon calling roll that these two enrolled students never attend his class, and mumbles : "Do they exist or are they spooks?"
Roth brilliantly uses the most ambiguous of words due to its several legitimate meanings compared to the one meaning racially derogatory to African Americans. Wikipedia's most comprehensive definition indicates the term's many meanings, a few of which fit the context of the professor's statement, only one of which is the racially offensive, pejorative use. The primary other use which appears to fit the context unless some evidence of a racial animus could be shown is of an apparition who is present but cannot be seen. This latter meaning is in fact its primary English meaning since its etymology revolves around various references to "ghost" or "apparition": cognate Dutch spook (鈥済host"), Middle Dutch spooc (鈥渟pook, ghost"); liken German Spuk (鈥済host, apparition"), Middle Low German spok (鈥渟pook"), and Norwegian spjok (鈥済host, specter").
Silk says he used the word "spook" to sarcastically imply the "possibility" that the students might be attending as ghosts or spirits. That, since they did not attend class and he didn't know who they were, he could not even know their race.
I won't get too sidetracked on "political correctness" run amok in this country, particularly in academia, and misused as a tool amounting to censorship, but I'll footnote excellent, reasoned quotes from a nonfiction book about the cultural revolution changing this country since the 1960s as well as two late iconoclastic hyper-intellectuals: David Foster Wallace and Christopher Hitchens.**
The narrator is Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman. Roth based the novel on an incident involving his friend, a professor at Princeton University. Silk resigns his post in anger and raises the stakes (and ire of campus feminists) when he starts dating an illiterate, but intelligent, female custodian who's about 30 years younger than he is (she's 34). She has a former lover who has serious "issues" arising from his stint in Vietnam.
The piercing irony is in Silk's disclosure that he is an African American who's been "passing" as Jewish and white since he served in the Navy. He married a white woman and had 4 children with her. His wife recently died and he never told her or the children of his/their ancestry. Silk decided to "take the future into his own hands rather than to leave it to an unenlightened society to determine his fate." Zuckerman frames novel and retells the back story in flashbacks as conveyed to him by Silk.
Against a present backdrop of the 1998 Oval Office Orgasm Scandal of former President Bill Clinton, Roth develops what I believe is his best novel, one raising trusty old questions of identity and self-invention, i.e., questions of whether one can change the past (Gatsby) or whether the past is ever even past (Faulkner in Requiem for a Nun). Two passages on these issues that I considered especially poignant were:
鈥淭here is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.鈥�
鈥淚 couldn't imagine anything that could have made Coleman more of a mystery to me than this unmasking. Now that I knew everything, it was as though I knew nothing.鈥�
____________________________________
**Footnote on Political Correctness
From Roger Kimball, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America:
鈥淎s with most revolutions, the counterculture's call for total freedom quickly turned into a demand for total control. The phenomenon of 'political correctness', with its speech codes and other efforts to enforce ideological conformity, was one predictable result of this transformation. What began at the University of California at Berkeley with the Free Speech Movement (called by some the 'Filthy Speech Movement'} soon degenerated into an effort to abridge freedom by dictating what could and could not be said about any number of politically sensitive issues.鈥�
From David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays:
鈥淭here's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact--in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself--of vast[ ] ... help to conservatives and the US status quo.... Were I, for instance, a political conservative who opposed using taxation as a means of redistributing national wealth, I would be delighted to watch PC progressives spend their time and energy arguing over whether a poor person should be described as "low-income" or "economically disadvantaged" or "pre-prosperous" rather than constructing effective public arguments for redistributive legislation or higher marginal tax rates. [...] In other words, PCE acts as a form of censorship, and censorship always serves the status quo.鈥�
February 9, 2017
A masterfully architected tale about race, shame, violence, and remembrance, The Human Stain is definitely one of Roth's masterpieces. From its first pages, the reader is drawn into the mystery of Coleman "Silky" Silk n茅 Silkzweig and his tragic downfall. The characters here are vibrant and real, the descriptions terrifying at times but always captivating, I found it hard putting this book down as I was relentlessly driven to want to know what happened - the mark of truly great writing. If you have never read Roth, you can safely start with this one or American Pastoral and you will definitely want more.
I just watched the movie from 2003 starring Anthony Hopkins as Coleman, Nicole Kidman as Faunia, Gary Sinise as Zuckerman and Ed Harris as Les. It is a wonderful and accurate rendition of the book for the silver screen. It can be watched before or after reading the book, but I would suggest reading the book first.
I just watched the movie from 2003 starring Anthony Hopkins as Coleman, Nicole Kidman as Faunia, Gary Sinise as Zuckerman and Ed Harris as Les. It is a wonderful and accurate rendition of the book for the silver screen. It can be watched before or after reading the book, but I would suggest reading the book first.
February 27, 2021
Philip Roth dealing with serious topics at this novel
discrimination, shame, identity, and judging others
the human between the truth, rumors and illusions
how hard to truly know someone
and how hard to live in a circle of lying and anger
lying to be accepted in a discriminatory community, and being angry for doing so
discrimination, shame, identity, and judging others
the human between the truth, rumors and illusions
how hard to truly know someone
and how hard to live in a circle of lying and anger
lying to be accepted in a discriminatory community, and being angry for doing so
October 24, 2021
Primera novela que leo de Philip Roth, uno de los autores americanos contempor谩neos mejor valorados. Creo que es un gran narrador y refleja muy bien la problem谩tica de la sociedad americana actual. Inspir谩ndose en las grandes tragedias griegas que forman parte del curriculum que su protagonista imparte en una peque帽a universidad americana, nos muestra c贸mo las tragedias actuales est谩n m谩s cerca del esperpento que de la heroicidad de los cl谩sicos.
Situada en el verano de 1998, con la sociedad americana conmocionada por el esc谩ndalo del affaire del Presidente Clinton con M贸nica Lewinsky, esta obra revisa los valores de unos colectivos que llevan al extremo normas de conducta que condicionan - y pueden arruinar - la vida de los individuos.
El racismo, las relaciones sexuales, la hipocres铆a en la vida de la comunidad universitaria, todo est谩 puesto en cuesti贸n con gran lucidez. Es una mirada c铆nica y desencantada que expone las contradicciones de una sociedad que intenta mejorar pero no siempre lo consigue - o eso piensa Philip Roth.
Situada en el verano de 1998, con la sociedad americana conmocionada por el esc谩ndalo del affaire del Presidente Clinton con M贸nica Lewinsky, esta obra revisa los valores de unos colectivos que llevan al extremo normas de conducta que condicionan - y pueden arruinar - la vida de los individuos.
El racismo, las relaciones sexuales, la hipocres铆a en la vida de la comunidad universitaria, todo est谩 puesto en cuesti贸n con gran lucidez. Es una mirada c铆nica y desencantada que expone las contradicciones de una sociedad que intenta mejorar pero no siempre lo consigue - o eso piensa Philip Roth.
April 9, 2016
賱賱丨賯 , 丕賱兀丿亘 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷 賴賵 兀賯賱 丕賱丌丿丕亘 廿孬丕乇丞 賱賱丕賴鬲賲丕賲 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷 , 賮賱丕
賷睾丕賲乇賳賷 鬲噩丕賴賴 匕賱賰 丕賱賮囟賵賱 丕賱賯丕鬲賱 丕賱匕賷 賷噩亘乇賳賷 毓賱賶 丕賱亘丨孬 賮賷 兀毓賲丕賯賴 , 賵亘丕爻鬲孬賳丕亍 廿丿噩丕乇 丌賱丕賳 亘賵 , 賱賲 兀噩丿 賮賷 鬲丕乇賷禺 匕賱賰 丕賱兀丿亘 賲賳 賷爻鬲丨賯 兀賳 賷賲孬賱 賱賷 毓馗賲丞 禺丕賱氐丞 , 賵丕毓鬲乇賮 兀賳 丕賱毓賷亘 賮賷 匕賱賰 賲賳賷 兀賳丕 , 賱兀賳賷 賱賲 兀賯乇兀 賮賷賴 賰賮丕賷鬲賴 .
賵賱賰賳 賴賳丕 兀噩丿 賳賮爻賷 兀賲丕賲 丨丕賱丞 卮丿賷丿丞 丕賱禺氐賵氐賷丞 , 丨丕賱丞 賲賳 卮兀賳賴丕 兀賳 鬲購噩亘乇賳賷 毓賱賶 丕賱丕賴鬲賲丕賲 亘匕賱賰 丕賱兀丿亘 賵賵囟毓賴 毓賱賶 乇兀爻 丕賱兀賵賱賵賷丕鬲 , 丨丕賱丞 鬲賲孬賱鬲 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 賲賳 丕賱胤乇丕夭 丕賱乇賮賷毓 , 乇賵丕賷丞 賯丿 鬲睾賷乇 賱賰 賲夭丕噩賰 丕賱卮禺氐賷 , 亘賱 賯丿 鬲睾賷乇 賱賰 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇 丨賷丕賷鬲丞 賲賴賲丞 .
丕賱賵氐賲丞 , 丕賱毓丕乇 , 丕賱毓賷亘 , 丕賱毓乇賮 , 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 , 賰賱賴丕 賲賮丕賴賷賷賲 毓丕賱賲賷丞 , 鬲噩丿賴丕 賮賷 賲禺鬲賱賮 丕賱孬賯丕賮丕鬲 賵 賲禺鬲賱賮 丕賱賱睾丕鬲 , 賵毓丕賳賶 賲賳賴丕 賲賱丕賷賷賳 丕賱亘卮乇 毓亘乇 鬲丕乇賷禺賴賲 丕賱胤賵賷賱 , 賲賳賴賲 賲賳 賴夭賲賴 賲噩鬲賲毓賴 賵毓丕乇賴 丕賱卮禺氐賷 , 賵賲賳賴賲 賲賳 丕爻鬲胤丕毓 鬲噩丕賵夭賴 賵丕賱丕賳胤賱丕賯 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 .
賳丨賳 兀賲丕賲 乇賵丕賷丞 禺丕氐丞 賱賱睾丕賷丞 , 毓亘乇 鬲丕乇賷禺 廿賳爻丕賳 兀賰孬乇 禺氐賵氐賷丞 賵兀賰亘乇 睾乇丕亘丞 , 賮賰賷賮 賷購鬲賴賲 亘丕賱毓賳氐乇賷丞 賲賳 賴賵 賮賷 禺丕賳丞 丕賱賲囟胤賴丿賷賳 責 賵賰賷賮 賷賯丕賵賲 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賴賲丞 責 賵賰賷賮 賷賴乇亘 賲賳賴丕 責 賵賴賱 丕丨鬲賱鬲賴 賱丨馗丞 囟毓賮 賮賵賯賮 賷丕卅爻賸丕 兀賲丕賲 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵丕賱丿賳賷丕 毓丕噩夭賸丕 毓賳 賲賯丕賵賲鬲賴丕 責 賵賲丕 丕賱匕賷 賷丿賮毓 兀爻鬲丕匕 兀丿亘 賰賱丕爻賷賰賷 賲賳 丕賱胤乇丕夭 丕賱乇賮賷毓 賱賲乇丕賮賯丞 兀賳孬賶 鬲氐睾乇賴 亘賯乇丕亘丞 丕賱丕乇亘毓賷賳 毓丕賲賸丕 責 賵賲丕 匕賱賰 丕賱丿丕賮毓 賱賰賷 賷賮毓賱 匕賱賰 責 兀賴賵 丿丕賮毓 噩爻丿賷 噩賳爻賷 亘丨鬲 責 兀賲 賴賷 毓賯丿 鬲乇爻亘鬲 賮賷 丿禺賱賴 賵 兀禺乇噩賴丕 賲鬲兀禺乇賸丕 責
乇賵丕賷丞 毓亘丕乇丞 毓賳 賰鬲賱丞 賵丕丨丿丞 , 賰鬲賱丞 丕賳爻丕賳賷丞 賮丕卅賯丞 丕賱噩賵丿丞 , 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賮賷賴丕 賷禺丕胤亘 兀丿賯 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱賳賮爻 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 , 賮賷賰卮賮 賱賳丕 賰賷賮 賳賴乇亘 賲賳 賲氐賷乇賳丕 , 賵賱賰賳 賲氐賷乇賳丕 兀亘丿丕 賱丕 賷鬲乇賰賳丕 , 廿賳賴 賷鬲乇賰賳丕 賮賯胤 賳毓賷卮 丕賱賵賴賲 , 丕賱賵賴賲 丕賱禺丕氐 亘賳丕 , 賵賴賲 丕賱鬲丨乇乇 賲賳 丕賱賯賷賵丿 丕賱兀亘丿賷丞 賵丕賱賲鬲賱丕夭賲丕鬲 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 , 賱賷氐賮毓賳丕 賲乇丞 賵丕丨丿丞 賵賷囟毓賳丕 賮賷 賮賵賴丞 丕賱亘乇賰丕賳 .
亘賰賱 賲丕 鬲丨賲賱賴 丕賱賰賱賲丞 賲賳 賲毓賳賶 , 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓馗賷賲丞 , 毓馗賷賲丞 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 , 毓馗賷賲丞 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴丕 (兀賲乇賷賰丕 賮賷 兀賵丕禺乇 丕賱鬲爻毓賷賳丕鬲 , 兀賷丕賲 賮囟賷丨丞 賲賵賳賷賰丕 賵 賰賱賷賳鬲賵賳 ) , 賵丕爻鬲胤丕毓 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 亘亘乇丕毓丞 兀賳 賷囟毓賳丕 賮賷 賯賱亘 丕賱夭賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷 , 賵賷賰卮賮 賱賳丕 兀毓賲丕賯 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷 賵 兀亘毓丕丿賴 .
賵氐賮 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 亘丿賷毓 , 賮毓賱丕 , 賵氐賮賴 賱鬲毓丕亘賷乇 丕賱賵噩賴 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷 賵鬲賮丕氐賷賱賴 , 賵氐賮賴 賱賱毓賱丕賯丕鬲 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 , 爻賵丕亍 賰丕賳鬲 毓賱丕賯丞 氐丿丕賯丞 兀賵 丨亘 兀賵 夭賵丕噩 兀賵 丨鬲賶 毓賱丕賯丞 噩賳爻賷丞 丿賯賷賯丞 , 賷囟毓賳丕 賮賷 毓賲賯 鬲賱賰 丕賱毓賱丕賯丞 賱賷噩毓賱賳丕 賳賮賴賲 .
鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱賳氐 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷 賰丕賳鬲 噩賷丿丞 賱賱睾丕賷丞 (賱丕夭賲 賳卮賰乇 賮丕胤賲丞 賳丕毓賵鬲 丕賱賱賷 兀賳丕 卮禺氐賷賸丕 賱丕 兀胤賷賯賴丕 ) 賱賰賳賴丕 賲鬲乇噩賲丞 噩賷丿丞 賵賮丕賴賲丞 賱賱賳氐賵氐 賵賲鬲匕賵賯丞 , 賲賯丿賲鬲賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 賲賮賷丿丞 賵 賴賵丕賲卮 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賲賮賷丿丞 , 賵賮賷 丕賱賲噩賲賱 丕賱賳氐 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 賷丿賱 毓賱賶 毓馗賲丞 丕賱賳氐 丕賱兀氐賱賷 丕賱賮丕卅賯丞 .
賷睾丕賲乇賳賷 鬲噩丕賴賴 匕賱賰 丕賱賮囟賵賱 丕賱賯丕鬲賱 丕賱匕賷 賷噩亘乇賳賷 毓賱賶 丕賱亘丨孬 賮賷 兀毓賲丕賯賴 , 賵亘丕爻鬲孬賳丕亍 廿丿噩丕乇 丌賱丕賳 亘賵 , 賱賲 兀噩丿 賮賷 鬲丕乇賷禺 匕賱賰 丕賱兀丿亘 賲賳 賷爻鬲丨賯 兀賳 賷賲孬賱 賱賷 毓馗賲丞 禺丕賱氐丞 , 賵丕毓鬲乇賮 兀賳 丕賱毓賷亘 賮賷 匕賱賰 賲賳賷 兀賳丕 , 賱兀賳賷 賱賲 兀賯乇兀 賮賷賴 賰賮丕賷鬲賴 .
賵賱賰賳 賴賳丕 兀噩丿 賳賮爻賷 兀賲丕賲 丨丕賱丞 卮丿賷丿丞 丕賱禺氐賵氐賷丞 , 丨丕賱丞 賲賳 卮兀賳賴丕 兀賳 鬲購噩亘乇賳賷 毓賱賶 丕賱丕賴鬲賲丕賲 亘匕賱賰 丕賱兀丿亘 賵賵囟毓賴 毓賱賶 乇兀爻 丕賱兀賵賱賵賷丕鬲 , 丨丕賱丞 鬲賲孬賱鬲 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 賲賳 丕賱胤乇丕夭 丕賱乇賮賷毓 , 乇賵丕賷丞 賯丿 鬲睾賷乇 賱賰 賲夭丕噩賰 丕賱卮禺氐賷 , 亘賱 賯丿 鬲睾賷乇 賱賰 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇 丨賷丕賷鬲丞 賲賴賲丞 .
丕賱賵氐賲丞 , 丕賱毓丕乇 , 丕賱毓賷亘 , 丕賱毓乇賮 , 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 , 賰賱賴丕 賲賮丕賴賷賷賲 毓丕賱賲賷丞 , 鬲噩丿賴丕 賮賷 賲禺鬲賱賮 丕賱孬賯丕賮丕鬲 賵 賲禺鬲賱賮 丕賱賱睾丕鬲 , 賵毓丕賳賶 賲賳賴丕 賲賱丕賷賷賳 丕賱亘卮乇 毓亘乇 鬲丕乇賷禺賴賲 丕賱胤賵賷賱 , 賲賳賴賲 賲賳 賴夭賲賴 賲噩鬲賲毓賴 賵毓丕乇賴 丕賱卮禺氐賷 , 賵賲賳賴賲 賲賳 丕爻鬲胤丕毓 鬲噩丕賵夭賴 賵丕賱丕賳胤賱丕賯 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 .
賳丨賳 兀賲丕賲 乇賵丕賷丞 禺丕氐丞 賱賱睾丕賷丞 , 毓亘乇 鬲丕乇賷禺 廿賳爻丕賳 兀賰孬乇 禺氐賵氐賷丞 賵兀賰亘乇 睾乇丕亘丞 , 賮賰賷賮 賷購鬲賴賲 亘丕賱毓賳氐乇賷丞 賲賳 賴賵 賮賷 禺丕賳丞 丕賱賲囟胤賴丿賷賳 責 賵賰賷賮 賷賯丕賵賲 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賴賲丞 責 賵賰賷賮 賷賴乇亘 賲賳賴丕 責 賵賴賱 丕丨鬲賱鬲賴 賱丨馗丞 囟毓賮 賮賵賯賮 賷丕卅爻賸丕 兀賲丕賲 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵丕賱丿賳賷丕 毓丕噩夭賸丕 毓賳 賲賯丕賵賲鬲賴丕 責 賵賲丕 丕賱匕賷 賷丿賮毓 兀爻鬲丕匕 兀丿亘 賰賱丕爻賷賰賷 賲賳 丕賱胤乇丕夭 丕賱乇賮賷毓 賱賲乇丕賮賯丞 兀賳孬賶 鬲氐睾乇賴 亘賯乇丕亘丞 丕賱丕乇亘毓賷賳 毓丕賲賸丕 責 賵賲丕 匕賱賰 丕賱丿丕賮毓 賱賰賷 賷賮毓賱 匕賱賰 責 兀賴賵 丿丕賮毓 噩爻丿賷 噩賳爻賷 亘丨鬲 責 兀賲 賴賷 毓賯丿 鬲乇爻亘鬲 賮賷 丿禺賱賴 賵 兀禺乇噩賴丕 賲鬲兀禺乇賸丕 責
乇賵丕賷丞 毓亘丕乇丞 毓賳 賰鬲賱丞 賵丕丨丿丞 , 賰鬲賱丞 丕賳爻丕賳賷丞 賮丕卅賯丞 丕賱噩賵丿丞 , 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賮賷賴丕 賷禺丕胤亘 兀丿賯 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱賳賮爻 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 , 賮賷賰卮賮 賱賳丕 賰賷賮 賳賴乇亘 賲賳 賲氐賷乇賳丕 , 賵賱賰賳 賲氐賷乇賳丕 兀亘丿丕 賱丕 賷鬲乇賰賳丕 , 廿賳賴 賷鬲乇賰賳丕 賮賯胤 賳毓賷卮 丕賱賵賴賲 , 丕賱賵賴賲 丕賱禺丕氐 亘賳丕 , 賵賴賲 丕賱鬲丨乇乇 賲賳 丕賱賯賷賵丿 丕賱兀亘丿賷丞 賵丕賱賲鬲賱丕夭賲丕鬲 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 , 賱賷氐賮毓賳丕 賲乇丞 賵丕丨丿丞 賵賷囟毓賳丕 賮賷 賮賵賴丞 丕賱亘乇賰丕賳 .
亘賰賱 賲丕 鬲丨賲賱賴 丕賱賰賱賲丞 賲賳 賲毓賳賶 , 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓馗賷賲丞 , 毓馗賷賲丞 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 , 毓馗賷賲丞 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴丕 (兀賲乇賷賰丕 賮賷 兀賵丕禺乇 丕賱鬲爻毓賷賳丕鬲 , 兀賷丕賲 賮囟賷丨丞 賲賵賳賷賰丕 賵 賰賱賷賳鬲賵賳 ) , 賵丕爻鬲胤丕毓 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 亘亘乇丕毓丞 兀賳 賷囟毓賳丕 賮賷 賯賱亘 丕賱夭賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷 , 賵賷賰卮賮 賱賳丕 兀毓賲丕賯 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷 賵 兀亘毓丕丿賴 .
賵氐賮 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 亘丿賷毓 , 賮毓賱丕 , 賵氐賮賴 賱鬲毓丕亘賷乇 丕賱賵噩賴 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷 賵鬲賮丕氐賷賱賴 , 賵氐賮賴 賱賱毓賱丕賯丕鬲 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 , 爻賵丕亍 賰丕賳鬲 毓賱丕賯丞 氐丿丕賯丞 兀賵 丨亘 兀賵 夭賵丕噩 兀賵 丨鬲賶 毓賱丕賯丞 噩賳爻賷丞 丿賯賷賯丞 , 賷囟毓賳丕 賮賷 毓賲賯 鬲賱賰 丕賱毓賱丕賯丞 賱賷噩毓賱賳丕 賳賮賴賲 .
鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱賳氐 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷 賰丕賳鬲 噩賷丿丞 賱賱睾丕賷丞 (賱丕夭賲 賳卮賰乇 賮丕胤賲丞 賳丕毓賵鬲 丕賱賱賷 兀賳丕 卮禺氐賷賸丕 賱丕 兀胤賷賯賴丕 ) 賱賰賳賴丕 賲鬲乇噩賲丞 噩賷丿丞 賵賮丕賴賲丞 賱賱賳氐賵氐 賵賲鬲匕賵賯丞 , 賲賯丿賲鬲賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 賲賮賷丿丞 賵 賴賵丕賲卮 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賲賮賷丿丞 , 賵賮賷 丕賱賲噩賲賱 丕賱賳氐 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 賷丿賱 毓賱賶 毓馗賲丞 丕賱賳氐 丕賱兀氐賱賷 丕賱賮丕卅賯丞 .
July 4, 2016
鈥淭he danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.鈥�
鈥� Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Reading Roth is almost a spooky, sexual experience. I say that knowing this will sound absurd, trite and probably hyperbolic. But with Roth, his words are imbued with an almost carnal power, a spectral courage, energy and life. IT is like watching an absurdly talented musician do things with an instrument/with sound that bends the edge of possible. Reading Roth, I can understand how the audience in Paganini's time wanted to burn the man for witchcraft, feared the man for his deal with the Devil. I'm not sure who Roth sold his soul to, but Roth's run of Novels: Operation Shylock (1993) Sabbath's Theater (1995) >> American Pastoral (1997) >> I Married a Communist (1998) >> The Human Stain (2000) can only be thought of as the greatest run of novels produced by ANY writer at anytime. Maybe Shakespeare had a better run. Maybe Proust. Maybe. For me, these five novels, ending with The Human Stain are the apex of 20th Century writing. Spooky.
鈥� Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Reading Roth is almost a spooky, sexual experience. I say that knowing this will sound absurd, trite and probably hyperbolic. But with Roth, his words are imbued with an almost carnal power, a spectral courage, energy and life. IT is like watching an absurdly talented musician do things with an instrument/with sound that bends the edge of possible. Reading Roth, I can understand how the audience in Paganini's time wanted to burn the man for witchcraft, feared the man for his deal with the Devil. I'm not sure who Roth sold his soul to, but Roth's run of Novels: Operation Shylock (1993) Sabbath's Theater (1995) >> American Pastoral (1997) >> I Married a Communist (1998) >> The Human Stain (2000) can only be thought of as the greatest run of novels produced by ANY writer at anytime. Maybe Shakespeare had a better run. Maybe Proust. Maybe. For me, these five novels, ending with The Human Stain are the apex of 20th Century writing. Spooky.
March 27, 2020
螘未蠋 苇蠂慰蠀渭蔚 蟿畏谓 蟺蔚渭蟺蟿慰蠀蟽委伪 蟿畏蟼 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓委伪蟼. 螒蟺伪喂蟿慰蠉谓蟿伪喂 未蠉慰 伪蟺位维 蟺蟻维纬渭伪蟿伪(魏维蟿喂 蠈蠂喂 蔚蠉魏慰位慰) 魏伪喂 渭蠈谓慰 未蠉慰 纬喂伪 谓伪 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻喂蟽蟿蔚委 苇谓伪 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓喂魏蠈 苇蟻纬慰 蠅蟼 魏慰蟻蠀蠁伪委慰. 螠委伪 维魏蟻蠅蟼 蔚谓未喂伪蠁苇蟻慰蠀蟽伪 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 渭蔚 尾伪胃蠉 谓蠈畏渭伪. 螝伪喂 魏蠀蟻委蠅蟼 苇谓伪蟼 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰蟼 纬蟻伪蠁萎蟼 蟺慰蠀 谓伪 蟺蟻慰魏伪位蔚委 蟿畏谓 渭苇纬喂蟽蟿畏 伪喂蟽胃畏蟿喂魏萎 蔚蠀蠂伪蟻委蟽蟿畏蟽畏 魏伪喂 伪蟺蠈位伪蠀蟽畏.
Shelved as 'reviews-of-books-i-didnt-read'
February 27, 2023So I watched the movie, and I really shouldn't have. To quote Pope Pius VII, it sometimes makes you wonder if you're on the right planet. Anthony Hopkins plays an extremely white black man! And the ever-crushingly beautiful Nicole Kidman plays an illiterate woman who's a janitor! Yes! And we're supposed to take this seriously! And the actor who plays the young Anthony Hopkins looks absolutely nothing like him! It's so insane. I believe they take a lot of drugs in Hollywood, and this movie appears to prove it. Some of the loonyness belongs to Philip Roth of course. Because the story has the crashingly beautiful even though desperately dressing down Nicole take a shine to the 70-if-he's-a-day Anthony and wants to shag him a lot! And this is the same wish fulfillment fantasy that Philip Roth keeps on writing about in all his late books! Over and over again! This would be funny if it weren't for the many rothophiles running about telling us that he's the greatest living writer of prose and will soon be the greatest dead one too. Ugh.
Okay, I admit, the book MUST must must must be better than this wretched loony movie but I will never find out. I got Rothed to death years ago.* This Human Stain movie, it was just a one time thing. It meant nothing. I swear I'll never see it again.
Hey, maybe when I'm real old and creepy I'll turn into this giant Rothfan and reread all this stuff and be yelling "yeah, stick it to her one more time, substitute-Rothman, you know she's gagging for your 70 year old flesh". Ew.
TO RECAP :
this is a black man
this is a cleaning lady
I understand the team who made The Human Stain will be producing a biopic on Philip Roth shortly and that the challenging role of Philip Roth, which requires the actor to age from 20 to 70 has gone to
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* er... not quite - I did subsequently read Nemesis and since it wasn't anything to do with shagging it was really pretty good, in a Larry David way : "pretty...pretty...pretty good".
Okay, I admit, the book MUST must must must be better than this wretched loony movie but I will never find out. I got Rothed to death years ago.* This Human Stain movie, it was just a one time thing. It meant nothing. I swear I'll never see it again.
Hey, maybe when I'm real old and creepy I'll turn into this giant Rothfan and reread all this stuff and be yelling "yeah, stick it to her one more time, substitute-Rothman, you know she's gagging for your 70 year old flesh". Ew.
TO RECAP :
this is a black man
this is a cleaning lady
I understand the team who made The Human Stain will be producing a biopic on Philip Roth shortly and that the challenging role of Philip Roth, which requires the actor to age from 20 to 70 has gone to
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* er... not quite - I did subsequently read Nemesis and since it wasn't anything to do with shagging it was really pretty good, in a Larry David way : "pretty...pretty...pretty good".
January 8, 2023
L鈥檕pera di Philip Roth, me ne convinco sempre pi霉, 猫 un unico grande disegno, una sorta di canovaccio che l鈥檃utore ha scritto nel tempo, ampliando la sua visione della vita ma sempre dentro alcuni temi ben definiti, i punti focali della sua esistenza. L鈥檃ppartenenza etnica, l鈥檃ppartenenza culturale, l鈥檃ppartenenza geografica, quella sociale, e la totale, assoluta, mancanza di appartenenza a una qualsivoglia classificazione. Non c鈥櫭� niente che possa imbrigliarlo, n茅 lui, n茅 tantomeno i suoi personaggi, piccole schegge impazzite di un male che qui, in questo grande romanzo, sono accomunate dal fatto di essere ontologicamente il male stesso. Un鈥檕pera intensa, amara come al solito, ma viva e perfettamente capace di restituire quell鈥檃lone di incompiutezza che gravita, tragicamente, sui suoi personaggi migliori e di pari passo sull鈥檜omo in s茅. Lo svedese, esempio brillante di una vita apparentemente brillante, un鈥檌dentit脿 frantumata, Sabbath, una ridicola controfigura di quello che avrebbe potuto essere un uomo e ora il brillante professore Coleman Silk, burlato dal logos, pensiero e parola che lo incarnano a finzione di se stesso. Un uomo nero che si finge bianco, che recita la sua esistenza sul filo di lama, una lama tagliente che potrebbe fendere la sua carne in ogni momento. Non solo personaggi tragici per貌, come si sa, nel caso di Seymour Levov e dello stesso Coleman Silk, l鈥檈quilibrio 猫 ripristinato con l鈥檈spediente del ponderato narratore, colui che veste il ruolo del testimone degli eventi e di novello tedoforo, capace di rischiarare i punti bui di un鈥檈sistenza mentre la consegna ai lettori per mano del suo stesso inventore. Nathan Zuckerman, l鈥檃lter ego di Philiph Roth, 猫 il nostro mentore ancora una volta, 猫 colui che ci guider脿 a dare un significato all鈥檈sistenza appena rappresentata. L鈥檈pilogo di questo romanzo infatti , pur generando gli stessi quesiti suscitati dall鈥檈sperienza parainfernale di Sabbath, lascia il lettore in uno stato completamente diverso, nell鈥檃ccettazione di un destino terribile, crudele.
Consapevole di non aver affatto parlato del romanzo, lo consegno ai futuri lettori, totalmente appagata da una lettura che ancora una volta offre una visione disincantata dell鈥檜omo, dell鈥橝merica, del suo falso mito delle 鈥渂elle sorti e progressive鈥� che si frantumano nell鈥檌ncapacit脿 di un sistema di istruzione lacunoso e deficitario, nel falso mito del melting polt e nella totale inadeguatezza della sua classe politica. Roth chiama Pirandello, per la parte squisitamente filosofica, come America chiama Italia per il contesto socio-culturale e politico. Mai cos矛 vicini, a noi manca il Vietnam ma i ragazzi del 鈥�99 non furono poi tanto lontani dagli americani quando divennero 鈥渟cemi di guerra鈥�.
Consapevole di non aver affatto parlato del romanzo, lo consegno ai futuri lettori, totalmente appagata da una lettura che ancora una volta offre una visione disincantata dell鈥檜omo, dell鈥橝merica, del suo falso mito delle 鈥渂elle sorti e progressive鈥� che si frantumano nell鈥檌ncapacit脿 di un sistema di istruzione lacunoso e deficitario, nel falso mito del melting polt e nella totale inadeguatezza della sua classe politica. Roth chiama Pirandello, per la parte squisitamente filosofica, come America chiama Italia per il contesto socio-culturale e politico. Mai cos矛 vicini, a noi manca il Vietnam ma i ragazzi del 鈥�99 non furono poi tanto lontani dagli americani quando divennero 鈥渟cemi di guerra鈥�.
March 22, 2016
螖蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 魏蟻蠀蠁蠈 蟺位苇慰谓 蟺蠅蟼 未蔚谓 蟿伪 蟺畏纬伪委谓蠅 魏伪喂 蟺维蟻伪 蟺慰位蠉 魏伪位维 渭蔚 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁蔚委蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 维位位畏 蟺位蔚蠀蟻维 蟿慰蠀 螒蟿位伪谓蟿喂魏慰蠉. 韦伪 蠂谓蠋蟿伪 渭伪蟼 未蔚谓 蟺慰位蠀蟿伪喂蟻喂维味慰蠀谓 魏伪喂 蟽蠀谓萎胃蠅蟼 尾纬维味蠅 蟽蟺蠀蟻维魏喂伪鈥� 蠈渭蠅蟼 蔚蟺蔚喂未萎 蟿蠋蟻伪 蟽蟿伪 纬蔚蟻维渭伪蟿伪, 尾维位胃畏魏伪 蟺苇蟻伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蔚蠀蟻蠅蟺伪蠆魏萎 渭慰蠀 蟺伪喂未蔚委伪 谓伪 伪蟺慰魏蟿萎蟽蠅 魏伪喂 慰位委纬慰谓 伪渭蔚蟻喂魏伪谓喂魏萎 (纬喂伪 谓伪 蔚委渭伪喂 蟽魏慰蟻蠈蠁喂未慰谓 魏慰蟽渭慰蟺慰位委蟿喂魏慰谓 魏伪喂 蟺伪谓蟿蠈蟼 魏伪喂蟻慰蠉), 蟽蠀谓蔚蠂委味蠅 伪魏维胃蔚魏蟿慰 蟿喂蟼 尾慰蠀蟿喂苇蟼 渭慰蠀 蟽蟿伪 伪渭蔚蟻喂魏伪谓喂魏维 纬蟻维渭渭伪蟿伪鈥� 螝伪喂 蔚蠀蟿蠀蠂蠋蟼 纬喂伪 渭苇谓伪鈥� 纬喂伪蟿委 伪谓伪魏维位蠀蠄伪 蟿慰谓 巍慰胃 魏伪喂 慰渭慰位慰纬蠋 蟺蠅蟼 慰喂 未蠀慰 渭伪蟼 蟿伪 尾蟻萎魏伪渭蔚 渭喂伪 蠂伪蟻维鈥� 韦慰蠀位维蠂喂蟽蟿慰谓 蔚纬蠋 渭伪味委 蟿慰蠀鈥�
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螝伪喂 蠈位伪 伪蠀蟿维鈥� 渭蔚 苇谓伪 渭蠀蟽蟿喂魏蠈 蟺慰蠀 尾伪蟻伪委谓蔚喂 蟿畏谓 蟺位维蟿畏 蟿慰蠀 螝蠈位渭伪谓 (蟿慰蠀 萎蟻蠅伪 渭伪蟼) 魏伪喂 蔚谓 蟿苇位蔚喂 蠈位畏 蟿畏谓 慰喂魏慰纬苇谓蔚喂伪 蟿慰蠀, 蟿畏谓 蟺蔚蟻委慰未慰 蟺慰蠀 畏 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏萎 魏伪喂 蠈位慰蟼 慰 蟺位伪谓萎蟿畏蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 蟺维胃蔚喂 蠁蟻蔚谓委蟿喂未伪 渭蔚 蟿慰 蟽魏维谓未伪位慰 螞喂慰蠀委谓蟽魏喂 魏伪喂 蟺慰蠀 伪魏蟻喂尾蠋蟼 慰 螤蟻蠈蔚未蟻慰蟼 螝位委谓蟿慰谓 苇蟻喂尉蔚 蟿慰 蟺慰位蠀蟺蠈胃畏蟿慰 蟽蟺苇蟻渭伪 蟿慰蠀鈥�
违螤螣螝螞螜螡螣螠螒螜 位慰喂蟺蠈谓 蟽蟿慰谓 渭蔚纬伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻慰 蔚谓 味蠅萎 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏伪谓蠈 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 (蟿慰蠀位维蠂喂蟽蟿慰谓 苇蟿蟽喂 蟿慰谓 伪蟺慰魏伪位慰蠉谓 慰喂 纬谓蠋蟽蟿蔚蟼鈥�) 蟺慰蠀 苇蠂蔚喂 蟺维蟻蔚喂 蠈位伪 蟿伪 尾蟻伪尾蔚委伪, 蔚魏蟿蠈蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 螡蠈渭蟺蔚位鈥� (苇蠂蔚喂 魏伪喂蟻蠈 伪魏蠈渭伪鈥� you never know!)
螘谓蟿维尉蔚喂, 苇尉蠀蟺谓慰喂 蔚委蟽伪蟽蟿蔚鈥� 魏伪蟿伪位维尾伪蟿蔚 蟿喂 尾伪胃渭蠈 胃伪 尾维位蠅鈥�
10/10 (伪蟽蠀味畏蟿畏蟿委鈥�)
螒谓 魏伪喂 蠈蟿伪谓 蟿蟻蔚位伪委谓慰渭伪喂 渭蔚 魏维蟺慰喂慰 尾喂尾位委慰, 畏 蠀蟺蠈胃蔚蟽畏 蟺蔚蟻谓维蔚喂 蠈蠂喂 蟽蟿畏 未蔚蠉蟿蔚蟻畏 伪位位维 蟽蔚 蟿蟻委蟿畏 魏伪喂 蟿苇蟿伪蟻蟿畏 渭慰委蟻伪, 慰位委纬伪 位蠈纬喂伪 纬喂伪 蟿慰 story: 螣 螝蠈位渭伪谓 危委位魏 蔚委谓伪喂 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼, 蟺蟻蠋畏谓 魏慰蟽渭萎蟿慰蟻伪蟼 蔚谓蠈蟼 渭喂魏蟻慰蠉 伪渭蔚蟻喂魏维谓喂魏慰蠀 蟺伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭委慰蠀, 蔚蠀蠀蟺蠈位畏蟺蟿慰蟼 魏伪喂 伪渭苇渭蟺蟿慰蠀 畏胃喂魏萎蟼鈥� 危蔚 苇谓伪 渭维胃畏渭维 蟿慰蠀, 胃伪 魏维谓蔚喂 蟿慰 芦蟿蟻伪纬喂魏蠈禄 位维胃慰蟼 谓伪 魏维谓蔚喂 蟿畏谓 蔚蟻蠋蟿畏蟽畏 蔚维谓 未蠉慰 蠁慰喂蟿畏蟿苇蟼 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蔚渭蠁伪谓喂蟽蟿蔚委 蟺慰蟿苇 蟽蟿慰 渭维胃畏渭维 蟿慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 鈥榮pookies鈥欌€� 螚 位苇尉畏 鈥榮pooky鈥� 蠈渭蠅蟼 蟽蟿畏谓 伪纬纬位喂魏萎 纬位蠋蟽蟽伪 苇蠂蔚喂 未喂蟺位萎 蟽畏渭伪蟽委伪鈥� 芦蠁维谓蟿伪蟽渭伪禄 魏伪喂 芦渭伪蠉蟻慰蟼禄鈥� 螣 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 蟿畏谓 蔚委蟺蔚 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏, 魏维蟺慰喂慰喂 魏伪位慰胃蔚位畏蟿苇蟼 蟿畏谓 蟺萎蟻伪谓 渭蔚 蟿畏 未蔚蠉蟿蔚蟻畏鈥� 螒蟺慰蟿苇位蔚蟽渭伪 慰 危喂位魏 鈥樜次瓜幬何迪勎蔽光€� 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 苇未蟻伪 蟿慰蠀, 蟿慰蠀 魏慰位位维蔚喂 渭喂伪 鈥樝佄迪勏兾刮轿刮€� (谓维蟿慰 位慰喂蟺蠈谓 苇谓伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 蟽蟿委纬渭伪蟿伪), 蟿慰 尾维蟻慰蟼 渭蔚纬维位慰, 畏 纬蠀谓伪委魏伪 蟿慰蠀 蟺蔚胃伪委谓蔚喂鈥� 螒蠁慰蠉 蟺蔚蟻谓维蔚喂 未蠀慰 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蟿畏 渭伪蠉蟻畏 魏伪蟿维胃位喂蠄畏 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 蟺喂魏蟻萎 慰蟻纬萎, 慰 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 渭喂伪 蠅蟻伪委伪 蟺蟻蠅委伪 蟿伪 伪蠁萎谓蔚喂 蠈位伪 蟺委蟽蠅 蟿慰蠀, 蠂维蟻畏 蟽蟿畏谓 伪纬魏伪位喂维 (魏伪喂 蠈蠂喂 渭蠈谓慰鈥�) 渭喂伪蟼 34/蠂蟻慰谓畏蟼 伪谓伪位蠁维尾畏蟿畏蟼 魏伪胃伪蟻委蟽蟿蟻喂伪蟼 (慰 委未喂慰蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 萎未畏 71 蠂蟻蠈谓蠅谓鈥�) 魏喂 伪蟻蠂委味慰蠀谓 魏喂 维位位伪 蠅蟻伪委伪, 魏伪蟿维 蟺蠈蟽慰 蔚委谓伪喂 畏胃喂魏萎 渭喂伪 蟿苇蟿慰喂伪 蟽蠂苇蟽畏鈥� 魏伪喂 蟺慰位位维 鈥� 蟺慰位位维 维位位伪鈥�
韦畏谓 位维蟿蟻蔚蠄伪 蟿畏 纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟿慰蠀 巍慰胃鈥� 螠蔚 伪蟺慰纬蔚委蠅蟽蔚鈥� 螚 蠄蠀蠂慰纬蟻维蠁畏蟽畏 蟿蠅谓 畏蟻蠋蠅谓 蟿慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 渭慰谓伪未喂魏萎鈥� 螛委纬蔚喂 蟿蠈蟽伪 蟺慰位位维 胃苇渭伪蟿伪 伪蟻喂蟽蟿慰蟿蔚蠂谓喂魏维, 蟽慰蠀 未委谓蔚喂 蟿蟻慰蠁萎 纬喂伪 蟽魏苇蠄畏, 蟽蔚 伪蟺慰纬蔚喂蠋谓蔚喂鈥� 螚 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 未蔚谓 苇蠂蔚喂 蟺位苇慰谓 魏伪渭委伪 蟽畏渭伪蟽委伪鈥� 蟽畏渭伪蟽委伪 苇蠂蔚喂 蠈位伪 伪蠀蟿维 蟺慰蠀 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蟺维蟻蔚喂 慰 伪谓伪纬谓蠋蟽蟿畏蟼鈥�
违蟺慰魏位委谓慰渭伪喂 蟽蟿畏谓 蠄蠀蠂慰纬蟻维蠁畏蟽畏 蟿慰蠀 螞蔚蟼 (蟿苇蠅蟼 维谓蟿蟻伪 蟿畏蟼 桅喂蠈谓伪, 蟿畏蟼 魏伪胃伪蟻委蟽蟿蟻喂伪蟼), 尾蔚蟿蔚蟻维谓慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 蟺慰位苇渭慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 螔喂蔚蟿谓维渭鈥� 韦慰谓 蟽蠀渭蟺蠈谓蔚蟽伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰谓 魏伪蟿维位伪尾伪, 伪蠂! 韦喂 蠄蠀蠂慰蟺慰谓喂维蟻喂魏慰 蠁委未喂 蟺慰蠀 蔚委渭伪喂!!! (伪蟽蠂苇蟿蠅蟼 伪谓 蟽蠀渭蠁蠅谓蠋 渭蔚 蟿喂蟼 蟺蟻维尉蔚喂蟼 蟿慰蠀鈥�) 韦喂 螒蟺慰魏维位蠀蠄畏 韦蠋蟻伪, 蟿喂 Platoon 魏伪喂 American Full metal jacket鈥� (蔚谓蟿维尉蔚喂 魏伪蟿伪位维尾伪蟿蔚 蟿畏谓 畏位喂魏委伪 渭慰蠀鈥�)
违蟺慰魏位委谓慰渭伪喂 蟽蟿畏谓 蠄蠀蠂慰纬蟻维蠁畏蟽畏 蟿畏蟼 螡蟿蔚位蠁委谓 巍慰蠀 (蟿畏蟼 纬伪位位委未伪蟼 蟺蟻慰苇未蟻慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 蟿渭萎渭伪蟿慰蟼), 伪谓 魏伪喂 渭慰蠀 维蠁畏蟽蔚 魏维蟺慰喂伪 魏蔚谓维 蟽蟿慰 蟿苇位慰蟼鈥�
螘尾蟻伪委慰喂 蟿畏蟼 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏萎蟼, 蠁蠀位蔚蟿喂魏苇蟼 未喂伪魏蟻委蟽蔚喂蟼, 蟽蠂苇蟽蔚喂蟼 渭畏 伪蟺慰未蔚魏蟿苇蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪, 未蔚蟽渭慰委 伪委渭伪蟿慰蟼, 蟿伪 蔚蟽蠅蟿蔚蟻喂魏维 蟿蠅谓 蟺伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭委蠅谓, 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏苇蟼 蠁喂位慰未慰尉委蔚蟼, 蔚蟽蠅蟿蔚蟻喂魏苇蟼 蟽蠀纬魏蟻慰蠉蟽蔚喂蟼 魏伪喂 维位位伪 蟺慰位位维 未苇谓慰蠀谓 伪蟻渭慰谓喂魏维 蟽鈥櫸毕呄勏� 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰鈥�
螝伪喂 蠈位伪 伪蠀蟿维鈥� 渭蔚 苇谓伪 渭蠀蟽蟿喂魏蠈 蟺慰蠀 尾伪蟻伪委谓蔚喂 蟿畏谓 蟺位维蟿畏 蟿慰蠀 螝蠈位渭伪谓 (蟿慰蠀 萎蟻蠅伪 渭伪蟼) 魏伪喂 蔚谓 蟿苇位蔚喂 蠈位畏 蟿畏谓 慰喂魏慰纬苇谓蔚喂伪 蟿慰蠀, 蟿畏谓 蟺蔚蟻委慰未慰 蟺慰蠀 畏 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏萎 魏伪喂 蠈位慰蟼 慰 蟺位伪谓萎蟿畏蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 蟺维胃蔚喂 蠁蟻蔚谓委蟿喂未伪 渭蔚 蟿慰 蟽魏维谓未伪位慰 螞喂慰蠀委谓蟽魏喂 魏伪喂 蟺慰蠀 伪魏蟻喂尾蠋蟼 慰 螤蟻蠈蔚未蟻慰蟼 螝位委谓蟿慰谓 苇蟻喂尉蔚 蟿慰 蟺慰位蠀蟺蠈胃畏蟿慰 蟽蟺苇蟻渭伪 蟿慰蠀鈥�
违螤螣螝螞螜螡螣螠螒螜 位慰喂蟺蠈谓 蟽蟿慰谓 渭蔚纬伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻慰 蔚谓 味蠅萎 螒渭蔚蟻喂魏伪谓蠈 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 (蟿慰蠀位维蠂喂蟽蟿慰谓 苇蟿蟽喂 蟿慰谓 伪蟺慰魏伪位慰蠉谓 慰喂 纬谓蠋蟽蟿蔚蟼鈥�) 蟺慰蠀 苇蠂蔚喂 蟺维蟻蔚喂 蠈位伪 蟿伪 尾蟻伪尾蔚委伪, 蔚魏蟿蠈蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 螡蠈渭蟺蔚位鈥� (苇蠂蔚喂 魏伪喂蟻蠈 伪魏蠈渭伪鈥� you never know!)
螘谓蟿维尉蔚喂, 苇尉蠀蟺谓慰喂 蔚委蟽伪蟽蟿蔚鈥� 魏伪蟿伪位维尾伪蟿蔚 蟿喂 尾伪胃渭蠈 胃伪 尾维位蠅鈥�
10/10 (伪蟽蠀味畏蟿畏蟿委鈥�)
February 29, 2016
Has being human in modern human society become a stigma? Judging by the novel The Human Stain humanism in the contemporary society is considered to be some kind of social defect.
鈥淗e was not a firebrand or an agitator in any way. Nor was he a madman. Nor was he a radical or a revolutionary, not even intellectually or philosophically speaking, unless it is revolutionary to believe that disregarding prescriptive society's most restrictive demarcations and asserting independently a free personal choice that is well within the law was something other than a basic human right鈥攗nless it is revolutionary, when you've come of age, to refuse to accept automatically the contract drawn up for your signature at birth.鈥�
So he was branded for being just human鈥�
What one thinks doesn鈥檛 matter鈥� What matters is the way how one can pretend that one thinks exactly the way the others all around do think鈥� Conformity and hypocrisy has become a social norm.
And in such society it is dangerous to be different.
鈥淗e was not a firebrand or an agitator in any way. Nor was he a madman. Nor was he a radical or a revolutionary, not even intellectually or philosophically speaking, unless it is revolutionary to believe that disregarding prescriptive society's most restrictive demarcations and asserting independently a free personal choice that is well within the law was something other than a basic human right鈥攗nless it is revolutionary, when you've come of age, to refuse to accept automatically the contract drawn up for your signature at birth.鈥�
So he was branded for being just human鈥�
What one thinks doesn鈥檛 matter鈥� What matters is the way how one can pretend that one thinks exactly the way the others all around do think鈥� Conformity and hypocrisy has become a social norm.
And in such society it is dangerous to be different.
January 8, 2023
"La macchia che esiste prima del suo segno. Che esiste senza il segno. La macchia cos矛 intrinseca che non richiede un segno."
"La macchia che precede la disobbedienza, che comprende la disobbedienza e frustra ogni spiegazione e ogni comprensione."
Ci sono macchie e macchie nella vita di Coleman Silk e dei personaggi che costellano la sua esistenza.
Macchie primigenie, simili al peccato originale, di cui non nessuna colpa 猫 imputabile al protagonista e ai suoi compagni di avventura, e poi ci sono le macchie causate dalle azioni e dalle decisioni prese consapevolmente da essi.
Azioni e decisioni che demarcano un prima e un dopo, azioni e decisioni che definitivamente rivelano quello di cui pu貌 essere capace l'uomo.
Rinnegare una madre (Coleman), mentire per coprire le proprie squallide azioni (Delphine), lasciare andare l'uomo che si ama perch茅 incapaci di andare contro le convenzioni e la societ脿 (Steena).
Verit脿 e segreti. Verit脿 presunte e segreti mai rivelati.
Motivazioni e leve che sono alla base dell'agire.
Di cui, a volte nemmeno chi le mette in atto, 猫 cos矛 consapevole, e di come alla fine, nessuno, neanche la persona col carattere pi霉 forte e indomito, sia in grado di pilotare il proprio destino. (... e qui ad un certo punto mi son chiesta se non stessi leggendo Marias, lui avrebbe tirato fuori Lady Macbeth, immagino)
鈥淭utti sanno鈥� 猫 l鈥檌nvocazione del clich茅 e l鈥檌nizio della banalizzazione dell鈥檈sperienza, e sono proprio la solennit脿 e la presunta autorevolezza con cui la gente formula il clich茅 a riuscire cos矛 insopportabili. Ci貌 che noi sappiamo 猫 che, in un modo non stereotipato, nessuno sa nulla. Non puoi sapere nulla. Le cose che sai鈥� non le sai. Intenzioni? Motivi? Conseguenze? Significati? Tutto ci貌 che non sappiamo 猫 stupefacente. Ancor pi霉 stupefacente 猫 quello che crediamo di sapere.
Colonna Sonora:
Inizio d'anno col botto: en plein di stelle per me.
"La macchia che precede la disobbedienza, che comprende la disobbedienza e frustra ogni spiegazione e ogni comprensione."
Ci sono macchie e macchie nella vita di Coleman Silk e dei personaggi che costellano la sua esistenza.
Macchie primigenie, simili al peccato originale, di cui non nessuna colpa 猫 imputabile al protagonista e ai suoi compagni di avventura, e poi ci sono le macchie causate dalle azioni e dalle decisioni prese consapevolmente da essi.
Azioni e decisioni che demarcano un prima e un dopo, azioni e decisioni che definitivamente rivelano quello di cui pu貌 essere capace l'uomo.
Rinnegare una madre (Coleman), mentire per coprire le proprie squallide azioni (Delphine), lasciare andare l'uomo che si ama perch茅 incapaci di andare contro le convenzioni e la societ脿 (Steena).
Verit脿 e segreti. Verit脿 presunte e segreti mai rivelati.
Motivazioni e leve che sono alla base dell'agire.
Di cui, a volte nemmeno chi le mette in atto, 猫 cos矛 consapevole, e di come alla fine, nessuno, neanche la persona col carattere pi霉 forte e indomito, sia in grado di pilotare il proprio destino. (... e qui ad un certo punto mi son chiesta se non stessi leggendo Marias, lui avrebbe tirato fuori Lady Macbeth, immagino)
鈥淭utti sanno鈥� 猫 l鈥檌nvocazione del clich茅 e l鈥檌nizio della banalizzazione dell鈥檈sperienza, e sono proprio la solennit脿 e la presunta autorevolezza con cui la gente formula il clich茅 a riuscire cos矛 insopportabili. Ci貌 che noi sappiamo 猫 che, in un modo non stereotipato, nessuno sa nulla. Non puoi sapere nulla. Le cose che sai鈥� non le sai. Intenzioni? Motivi? Conseguenze? Significati? Tutto ci貌 che non sappiamo 猫 stupefacente. Ancor pi霉 stupefacente 猫 quello che crediamo di sapere.
Colonna Sonora:
Inizio d'anno col botto: en plein di stelle per me.
January 20, 2021
Il mio primo libro di Roth...
Una struttura narrativa che punta all'introspezione dei personaggi attraverso pochi dialoghi e molti flussi di coscienza. I personaggi si delineano e approfondiscono fino a impedire al lettore di esprimere un giudizio morale su di loro. La vita dei suoi personaggi ha la dote della moltiplicazione: fili che gemmano e si incrociano perch猫 nessuno 猫 totalmente positivo, nessuno 猫 completamente un eroe e nessuno 猫 compiutamente un antieroe. Ognuno di loro racchiude il tutto.
Un linguaggio complesso e sapientemente articolato nella struttura perch猫 Roth sembra voler approfondire il sentire pi霉 che il fare dei suoi personaggi.
La storia che racconta 猫 come una moderna tragedia greca: appassionata, totale, assoluta, etica e catartica.
Mi 猫 piaciuto.
Una struttura narrativa che punta all'introspezione dei personaggi attraverso pochi dialoghi e molti flussi di coscienza. I personaggi si delineano e approfondiscono fino a impedire al lettore di esprimere un giudizio morale su di loro. La vita dei suoi personaggi ha la dote della moltiplicazione: fili che gemmano e si incrociano perch猫 nessuno 猫 totalmente positivo, nessuno 猫 completamente un eroe e nessuno 猫 compiutamente un antieroe. Ognuno di loro racchiude il tutto.
Un linguaggio complesso e sapientemente articolato nella struttura perch猫 Roth sembra voler approfondire il sentire pi霉 che il fare dei suoi personaggi.
La storia che racconta 猫 come una moderna tragedia greca: appassionata, totale, assoluta, etica e catartica.
Mi 猫 piaciuto.
July 28, 2024
Set in New England, this book tells the story of a college professor accused of making a racist remark in one of his classes. The fact that what follows is patently unfair sets this book up as a commentary on extreme political correctness.
There is a lot of ground covered here - Vietnam, Clinton/Lewinsky, racism and ageing to name a few - and in typical Roth style it is rich, clever, complex and, at times, ranting. Not what I'd call a relaxing read but hugely worthwhile if you're in the mood.
There is a lot of ground covered here - Vietnam, Clinton/Lewinsky, racism and ageing to name a few - and in typical Roth style it is rich, clever, complex and, at times, ranting. Not what I'd call a relaxing read but hugely worthwhile if you're in the mood.
May 23, 2018
Spettri!
鈥淣oi lasciamo una macchia, lasciamo una traccia, lasciamo la nostra impronta. Impurit脿, crudelt脿, abuso, errore, escremento, seme: non c鈥櫭� altro mezzo per essere qui鈥�.
La vita 猫 costruita su una segreta bugia. Cos矛 di una trama di finzione noi vediamo una macchia, un'impronta, un'impurit脿; e tutto 猫 errore, crudelt脿, inganno, scommessa, fascino, decisione, ultimo canto. Sdegno e rispetto nascondono spirito ostile e vendicativo, tra le braccia delle antiche tradizioni e di legami convenzionali e materiali. Ipocrisia e violenza coprono di indifferenza e insensatezza le persone che pensano di non temerne la potenza distruttrice. Il protagonista di Roth adora donne diverse e disordinate, sensuali nella loro colpa, emozionanti in quanto irregolari. Roth cerca un disegno nello squilibrio, e percorre sentieri inaspettati e inconciliabili: cos矛 l'istinto alla purezza si realizza solo nella difformit脿, l'inconsistenza di ogni convinzione 猫 messa costantemente alla prova dei fatti, dei corpi, della natura. Coleman e Faunia si illudono di essere irripetibili, ma il contesto sociale intorno impone loro una volont脿 rituale e implacabile. La passione evolve in complicit脿 animalesca e volont脿 disorganica, in onde di sentimenti morbosi, in atteggiamenti delittuosi, trasformando un passato tormentato in un destino disperato. Ma il pregiudizio 猫 una forma di conoscenza che spinge la moralit脿 ad approfittarsi di ogni debolezza, fragilit脿 e contraddizione. Cos矛 la dimensione tragica si rivela in tutta la sua profondit脿, portando il lettore a rinnegare se stesso e la pi霉 intima identit脿, senza essersi accorto di aver attraversato numerosi confini e di aver ritrovato dentro le pagine un impulso incredulo e ancestrale. Quello alla felicit脿.
鈥溍� in ognuno di noi. Insita. Inerente. Qualificante. La macchia che esiste prima del segno. Che esiste senza il segno. La macchia cos矛 intrinseca non richiede un segno. La macchia che precede la disobbedienza, che comprende la disobbedienza e frusta ogni spiegazione e ogni comprensione鈥�.
鈥淣oi lasciamo una macchia, lasciamo una traccia, lasciamo la nostra impronta. Impurit脿, crudelt脿, abuso, errore, escremento, seme: non c鈥櫭� altro mezzo per essere qui鈥�.
La vita 猫 costruita su una segreta bugia. Cos矛 di una trama di finzione noi vediamo una macchia, un'impronta, un'impurit脿; e tutto 猫 errore, crudelt脿, inganno, scommessa, fascino, decisione, ultimo canto. Sdegno e rispetto nascondono spirito ostile e vendicativo, tra le braccia delle antiche tradizioni e di legami convenzionali e materiali. Ipocrisia e violenza coprono di indifferenza e insensatezza le persone che pensano di non temerne la potenza distruttrice. Il protagonista di Roth adora donne diverse e disordinate, sensuali nella loro colpa, emozionanti in quanto irregolari. Roth cerca un disegno nello squilibrio, e percorre sentieri inaspettati e inconciliabili: cos矛 l'istinto alla purezza si realizza solo nella difformit脿, l'inconsistenza di ogni convinzione 猫 messa costantemente alla prova dei fatti, dei corpi, della natura. Coleman e Faunia si illudono di essere irripetibili, ma il contesto sociale intorno impone loro una volont脿 rituale e implacabile. La passione evolve in complicit脿 animalesca e volont脿 disorganica, in onde di sentimenti morbosi, in atteggiamenti delittuosi, trasformando un passato tormentato in un destino disperato. Ma il pregiudizio 猫 una forma di conoscenza che spinge la moralit脿 ad approfittarsi di ogni debolezza, fragilit脿 e contraddizione. Cos矛 la dimensione tragica si rivela in tutta la sua profondit脿, portando il lettore a rinnegare se stesso e la pi霉 intima identit脿, senza essersi accorto di aver attraversato numerosi confini e di aver ritrovato dentro le pagine un impulso incredulo e ancestrale. Quello alla felicit脿.
鈥溍� in ognuno di noi. Insita. Inerente. Qualificante. La macchia che esiste prima del segno. Che esiste senza il segno. La macchia cos矛 intrinseca non richiede un segno. La macchia che precede la disobbedienza, che comprende la disobbedienza e frusta ogni spiegazione e ogni comprensione鈥�.
February 24, 2022
4.5
Pata asta pe care to葲i o las膬m in urm膬, via葲a 卯ns膬葯i, nu identitatea pe care ne chinuim s膬 ne-o construim, ci ceea ce tr膬im efectiv...
Nu 葯tiu alt scriitor care s膬 se lupte mai bine cu marile teme, ca Iakov cu 卯ngerul, construindu-葯i singur scara din cuvinte.
In Pastorala era marele vis american corupt, 卯n M-am m膬ritat cu un comunist era fariseismul maniacilor anticomuni葯ti, aici e bigotismul burgheziei ultraeducate. Cu rasism 葯i traume post-Vietnam, cu personaje de o for葲膬 care rupe paginile. Mai ales Faunia (are Roth un fel de a construi personaje feminine pe care le iube葯ti sau le ur膬葯ti, oameni, nu caricaturi, cum nu 葯tiu dac膬 o mai fac al葲i scriitori, mai ales barba葲i). De fapt, 卯n toat膬 Trilogia americana e despre ipocrizia societ膬葲ii, despre identitate 葯i razvr膬tire, inadaptare.
Petei 卯i dau 4.5* doar pentru c膬 celelalte dou膬 au fost magnetice, cople葯itoare 葯i ea pierde pu葲in prin compara葲ie, dup膬 mine.
Pata asta pe care to葲i o las膬m in urm膬, via葲a 卯ns膬葯i, nu identitatea pe care ne chinuim s膬 ne-o construim, ci ceea ce tr膬im efectiv...
Nu 葯tiu alt scriitor care s膬 se lupte mai bine cu marile teme, ca Iakov cu 卯ngerul, construindu-葯i singur scara din cuvinte.
In Pastorala era marele vis american corupt, 卯n M-am m膬ritat cu un comunist era fariseismul maniacilor anticomuni葯ti, aici e bigotismul burgheziei ultraeducate. Cu rasism 葯i traume post-Vietnam, cu personaje de o for葲膬 care rupe paginile. Mai ales Faunia (are Roth un fel de a construi personaje feminine pe care le iube葯ti sau le ur膬葯ti, oameni, nu caricaturi, cum nu 葯tiu dac膬 o mai fac al葲i scriitori, mai ales barba葲i). De fapt, 卯n toat膬 Trilogia americana e despre ipocrizia societ膬葲ii, despre identitate 葯i razvr膬tire, inadaptare.
Petei 卯i dau 4.5* doar pentru c膬 celelalte dou膬 au fost magnetice, cople葯itoare 葯i ea pierde pu葲in prin compara葲ie, dup膬 mine.
September 12, 2021
The Human Stain is a wonderfully complex novel focusing of examination of race and identity, with some politics and human relationships thrown in the mix. The writing is chaotic, angry and bitter, but it's also brilliant. In many ways this novel was ahead of its time. The Human Stain is not without flaws, but it is the kind of book that makes you think- and in the end, it's what matters.
I read this novel about a decade ago, but recently I found myself thinking about it again. Sometimes a book stays with you. Roth books often do that. Years go by and I still think about them. Just the other day, I stumbled on an old copy (with my old notes) of The Human Stain and started reading it again. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to reread it just now, not cover to cover, but I suspect that some day I might do that. The review I will share today was written years ago, but I polished it a bit for this post. (You can find the full version on my blog: )
MAKING FUN OF THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY IN STYLE
I quite enjoyed the abundant social satire in The Human Stain, especially when it was directed towards the academic community. I mean, anyone who makes fun at academic community so brilliantly has my praise. If anyone needs some reality check, it's that kind of snobbish professors. Although that's not at all what the novel is about, it's certainly one part of the puzzle. Roth is so good at making fun of everything that it can be distracting. Nevertheless, there is truth in his humour- before you know it, you realize that it's often the kind of stuff that makes you think. His humour can be dark at times but so is his view of the world. This is a writer that's not afraid to dig deep. Again not the most important aspect of novel, but something I really liked is an attractive amount of social commentary and political satire. I do like when there is some quality social commentary in a book. One doesn't come across it as often as one would like. It seems that Roth really knows what he is writing about. Whether he researched this particular time period and place or relied on memory, he really captures the atmosphere and the politics of the time.
AN OPEN CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Among other things, this novel heavily criticizes political correctness. More than being a mere critique of political correctness, this book analyses it. The Human Stain shows how political correctness can be used as a tool (and indeed it often is). Sometimes forced political correctness can be used to undermine progress in the academic and science community. This novel was written years before the term 'cancel culture' came to existence, but it describes it perfectly. Looking back, I would say that it was really ahead of its time. After all, the principal character in this novel falls victim to cancel culture. An University professor is 'cancelled' because of just one wrong word. The fact that he didn't mean anything wrong by it or even that the world has multiple meanings doesn't pardon him in the eyes of the public.
AN OBJECTIVE NARRATOR THAT TELLS THE TALE OF COLEMAN SILK
The narrator of the novel is a writer Nathan Zuckerman. A well portrayed character with somewhat autobiographical elements to him, Zuckerman serves as an objective narrator. All in all, Zuckerman is a likable character that connects well with the protagonist of the novel. In addition, the narrator of this novel is there to tie all the stories, sometimes functioning almost as a private detective. Nobody in this story is quite what he/she seems, there is always some secret to be discovered, some aspect of their personality to be revealed.
Zuckerman is there to create some distance from the fascinating and mysterious protagonist Coleman Silk. It just occurred to me that this might be a reference to The Great Gatsby. There's the friendship between two men, one of them staying loyal to the other, even when all abandon him. True, these two men are much older than Gatsby and his Southern friend Nick, but there's a similar vibe to their friendship. However, there is more to discover here. If The Human Stain can be compared to The Great Gatsby in the sense that it also examines the American dream, it's still a distinctly original work of writing. The modern Gatsby has more secrets and the modern Nick will find most of them out. Nathan Zuckerman functions well as a narrator of this book.
鈥淣othing lasts, and yet nothing passes, either. And nothing passes just because nothing lasts.鈥�
鈥� Philip Roth, The Human Stain
THE PLOT: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF COLEMAN SILK
The way this story of Coleman Silk is told is a bit too wordy and chaotic, but - what a story!
The plot is very interesting and definitely keeps one's interest. As the story progress, there are a few new characters introduced together with their back stories that get a part to play as well. So, there are subplots as well. The narrative is not chronological, there are digressions but they are meaningful for the story and just add additional interest to the plot. The past and the present both play a part in this novel, affecting the future. At times the story (or perhaps better to say stories) might be a bit hard to follow, but it never stops being interesting. The idea for the novel is very original; at least I haven't come across it before. An African American character who passes for a Jew so he could get the job of his dreams (teaching literature) but then gets fired because he uses a word that can be offensive to African Americans. In a strange turn of events, Silk is accused of being racist towards his own race. Once the story starts, it really draws you in. I found myself captured by the story of Coleman Silk. I loved the way the author reveals more and more about this fascinating character gradually. I loved the account of Silk's growing up, his boxing days and his interaction with his family. I found it hard to believe how he cut all of his ties with his family in order to pursue a new identity. However, on many levels, Coleman Silk's story makes sense. Who of us hasn't feel burdened by our identity at times? Who hasn't thought of starting again fresh? So, maybe the story of Coleman Silk isn't as incredible at it might seem at first.
SERIOUS AND TABOO SUBJECTS IT TOUCHED UPON
This novel explores some rather serious and taboo themes from the conflict between the society and the individual to the questions of race, identity, liberty and personal relationships. It seems that Roth is not at least afraid to go into the most serious issues (child abuse, PTSP, etc...). Moreover, his exploration of racial identity is rather bold. The idea that the identity of your nation or race can be a burden to you is certainly controversial yet I'm sure that many have felt it. Moreover, Roth is quite ruthless in his critique of society. Some aspects of this novel can be seen as a critique of modern feminism and PC culture. As I said, Roth isn't for everyone. Some people might find this book offending.
THE CONCLUSION: MY FINAL THOUGHTS
Not for the faint of heart. This is a novel that contains some strong language and can be brutal in its social satire. It ridiculous the emptiness of political correctness and isn't afraid to ask some bold questions. It's describes the political climate of the period and place it is set with brutal honestly. The Human Stain shows us the fragility of human knowledge. The plot is engaging albeit chaotic and so are the characters. It is a novel that features credible but flawed characters. The Human Stain is not without some minor flaws. The writing is perhaps too bitter, wordy, angry and pessimistic at times, but on the whole the novel is a complex piece of writing that deserves attention. All in all, it's a successful novel. In my opinion, The Human Stain deserved all the literary awards it got and more.
I read this novel about a decade ago, but recently I found myself thinking about it again. Sometimes a book stays with you. Roth books often do that. Years go by and I still think about them. Just the other day, I stumbled on an old copy (with my old notes) of The Human Stain and started reading it again. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to reread it just now, not cover to cover, but I suspect that some day I might do that. The review I will share today was written years ago, but I polished it a bit for this post. (You can find the full version on my blog: )
MAKING FUN OF THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY IN STYLE
I quite enjoyed the abundant social satire in The Human Stain, especially when it was directed towards the academic community. I mean, anyone who makes fun at academic community so brilliantly has my praise. If anyone needs some reality check, it's that kind of snobbish professors. Although that's not at all what the novel is about, it's certainly one part of the puzzle. Roth is so good at making fun of everything that it can be distracting. Nevertheless, there is truth in his humour- before you know it, you realize that it's often the kind of stuff that makes you think. His humour can be dark at times but so is his view of the world. This is a writer that's not afraid to dig deep. Again not the most important aspect of novel, but something I really liked is an attractive amount of social commentary and political satire. I do like when there is some quality social commentary in a book. One doesn't come across it as often as one would like. It seems that Roth really knows what he is writing about. Whether he researched this particular time period and place or relied on memory, he really captures the atmosphere and the politics of the time.
AN OPEN CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Among other things, this novel heavily criticizes political correctness. More than being a mere critique of political correctness, this book analyses it. The Human Stain shows how political correctness can be used as a tool (and indeed it often is). Sometimes forced political correctness can be used to undermine progress in the academic and science community. This novel was written years before the term 'cancel culture' came to existence, but it describes it perfectly. Looking back, I would say that it was really ahead of its time. After all, the principal character in this novel falls victim to cancel culture. An University professor is 'cancelled' because of just one wrong word. The fact that he didn't mean anything wrong by it or even that the world has multiple meanings doesn't pardon him in the eyes of the public.
AN OBJECTIVE NARRATOR THAT TELLS THE TALE OF COLEMAN SILK
The narrator of the novel is a writer Nathan Zuckerman. A well portrayed character with somewhat autobiographical elements to him, Zuckerman serves as an objective narrator. All in all, Zuckerman is a likable character that connects well with the protagonist of the novel. In addition, the narrator of this novel is there to tie all the stories, sometimes functioning almost as a private detective. Nobody in this story is quite what he/she seems, there is always some secret to be discovered, some aspect of their personality to be revealed.
Zuckerman is there to create some distance from the fascinating and mysterious protagonist Coleman Silk. It just occurred to me that this might be a reference to The Great Gatsby. There's the friendship between two men, one of them staying loyal to the other, even when all abandon him. True, these two men are much older than Gatsby and his Southern friend Nick, but there's a similar vibe to their friendship. However, there is more to discover here. If The Human Stain can be compared to The Great Gatsby in the sense that it also examines the American dream, it's still a distinctly original work of writing. The modern Gatsby has more secrets and the modern Nick will find most of them out. Nathan Zuckerman functions well as a narrator of this book.
鈥淣othing lasts, and yet nothing passes, either. And nothing passes just because nothing lasts.鈥�
鈥� Philip Roth, The Human Stain
THE PLOT: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF COLEMAN SILK
The way this story of Coleman Silk is told is a bit too wordy and chaotic, but - what a story!
The plot is very interesting and definitely keeps one's interest. As the story progress, there are a few new characters introduced together with their back stories that get a part to play as well. So, there are subplots as well. The narrative is not chronological, there are digressions but they are meaningful for the story and just add additional interest to the plot. The past and the present both play a part in this novel, affecting the future. At times the story (or perhaps better to say stories) might be a bit hard to follow, but it never stops being interesting. The idea for the novel is very original; at least I haven't come across it before. An African American character who passes for a Jew so he could get the job of his dreams (teaching literature) but then gets fired because he uses a word that can be offensive to African Americans. In a strange turn of events, Silk is accused of being racist towards his own race. Once the story starts, it really draws you in. I found myself captured by the story of Coleman Silk. I loved the way the author reveals more and more about this fascinating character gradually. I loved the account of Silk's growing up, his boxing days and his interaction with his family. I found it hard to believe how he cut all of his ties with his family in order to pursue a new identity. However, on many levels, Coleman Silk's story makes sense. Who of us hasn't feel burdened by our identity at times? Who hasn't thought of starting again fresh? So, maybe the story of Coleman Silk isn't as incredible at it might seem at first.
SERIOUS AND TABOO SUBJECTS IT TOUCHED UPON
This novel explores some rather serious and taboo themes from the conflict between the society and the individual to the questions of race, identity, liberty and personal relationships. It seems that Roth is not at least afraid to go into the most serious issues (child abuse, PTSP, etc...). Moreover, his exploration of racial identity is rather bold. The idea that the identity of your nation or race can be a burden to you is certainly controversial yet I'm sure that many have felt it. Moreover, Roth is quite ruthless in his critique of society. Some aspects of this novel can be seen as a critique of modern feminism and PC culture. As I said, Roth isn't for everyone. Some people might find this book offending.
THE CONCLUSION: MY FINAL THOUGHTS
Not for the faint of heart. This is a novel that contains some strong language and can be brutal in its social satire. It ridiculous the emptiness of political correctness and isn't afraid to ask some bold questions. It's describes the political climate of the period and place it is set with brutal honestly. The Human Stain shows us the fragility of human knowledge. The plot is engaging albeit chaotic and so are the characters. It is a novel that features credible but flawed characters. The Human Stain is not without some minor flaws. The writing is perhaps too bitter, wordy, angry and pessimistic at times, but on the whole the novel is a complex piece of writing that deserves attention. All in all, it's a successful novel. In my opinion, The Human Stain deserved all the literary awards it got and more.
December 24, 2013
丕賱賵氐賲丞 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞
毓乇賮鬲 賮賷賱賷亘 乇賵孬 賮賷 (爻禺胤)貙 賵賱賰賳賷 鬲毓乇賮鬲 毓賱賷賴 丨賯丕賸 賴賳丕貙 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱賲匕賴賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲賴夭賰 賲賳 丕賱兀毓賲丕賯貙 賵爻鬲賱鬲賯賷 禺賱丕賱賴丕 亘卮禺氐賷丞 賲賳 兀毓馗賲 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 兀賳噩亘賴丕 丕賱兀丿亘貙 (賰賵賱賲賳 爻賷賱賰) 丕賱夭賳噩賷 丕賱匕賷 鬲賳賰乇 賱兀氐賵賱賴 賵賱毓丕卅賱鬲賴貙 賵毓丕卮 丨賷丕鬲賴 賰賱賴丕 賰乇噩賱 兀亘賷囟貙 兀亘賷囟 廿賱賶 丿乇噩丞 兀賳賴 賵賷丕 賱賱爻禺乇賷丞 賷爻鬲賯賷賱 賮賷 兀賵丕禺乇 毓賲乇賴 賲賳 丕賱噩丕賲毓丞 亘毓丿 丕鬲賴丕賲賴 亘丕賱毓賳氐乇賷丞貙 賵囟丿 賲賳 !!! 囟丿 胤丕賱亘賷賳 夭賳噩賷賷賳 !!
兀賲乇賷賰丕 1998 賲貙 兀賳馗丕乇 賰賱 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷賷賳 賲鬲噩賴丞 賳丨賵 丕賱亘賷鬲 丕賱兀亘賷囟貙 賮囟賷丨丞 賲賵賳賷賰丕 賱賵賷賳爻賰賷 鬲賴夭 賰乇爻賷 丕賱乇卅賷爻貙 賵賮賷 噩丕賲毓丞 兀孬賷賳丕 賷爻賯胤 賰乇爻賷 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 丕賱賲丨鬲乇賲 賰賵賱賲賳 爻賷賱賰貙 亘毓丿 鬲賱賮馗賴 亘賰賱賲丞 氐睾賷乇丞 鬲鬲丨賲賱 賲毓賳賷賷賳 兀丨丿賴賲丕 毓賳氐乇賷貙 賴賰匕丕 賷噩丿 賳賮爻賴 兀賲丕賲 丕鬲賴丕賲丕鬲 毓賳氐乇賷丞貙 賷賵丕噩賴賴丕 亘睾囟亘 賵毓賳賮貙 賵禺賱丕賱 爻賳鬲賷賳 賲賳 丕賱氐乇丕毓 鬲賲賵鬲 夭賵噩鬲賴貙 賮賷賱噩兀 亘毓丿 噩賳丕夭鬲賴丕 廿賱賶 乇丕賵賷 丕賱賯氐丞 賳丕孬丕賳 夭賵賰乇賲丕賳 鈥� 丕爻鬲禺丿賲 賮賷賱賷亘 乇賵孬 賴匕賴 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賮賷 乇賵丕賷鬲賷賳 兀禺乇賷賷賳貙 丕毓鬲亘乇鬲丕 賲毓 丕賱賵氐賲丞 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 孬賱丕孬賷丞 -貙 賵賴賵 賲丐賱賮 賷胤丕賱亘賴 賰賵賱賲賳 亘鬲兀賱賷賮 賰鬲丕亘 毓賳 丨賷丕鬲賴貙 賵賲丕 鬲毓乇囟 賱賴貙 賴賰匕丕... 鬲賳賮鬲丨 丕賱亘賵丕亘丕鬲 賱賳丕貙 賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 賲丕囟賷 賰賵賱賲賳 爻賷賱賰 賵丨賯賷賯丞 兀賳賴 賲賳 兀氐賵賱 夭賳噩賷丞貙 賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 賵丕賱丿賴 賵毓丕卅賱鬲賴貙 賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 丨賷丕鬲賴 丕賱毓丕胤賮賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賳鬲賴賷 亘賮賵賳賷丕 賮賷乇賱賷貙 丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷賯賷賲 賲毓賴丕 毓賱丕賯丞 毓丕胤賮賷丞貙 乇睾賲 兀賳賴丕 賮賷 賳氐賮 毓賲乇賴貙 賵乇睾賲 兀賳賴丕 毓丕賲賱丞 賰丕丿丨丞貙 賮賷 賲賯丕亘賱賴 賴賵 丕賱兀爻鬲丕匕 丕賱噩丕賲毓賷 賵丕賱賲孬賯賮.
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲囟噩 亘卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丨賷丞貙 賷毓鬲賳賷 亘賴丕 乇賵孬 噩賷丿丕賸貙 賵賷毓乇囟 賱賳丕 丨賷賵丕鬲賴丕 亘爻禺丕亍貙 賲賳 賰賵賱賲賳 爻賷賱賰貙 廿賱賶 睾乇賷賲鬲賴 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 丿賵賱賮賷賳 乇賵賰爻貙 廿賱賶 賮賵賳賷丕 賮賷乇賱賷 丕賱毓卮賷賯丞 丕賱賲囟胤乇亘丞貙 賵夭賵噩賴丕 丕賱噩賳丿賷 丕賱爻丕亘賯 賱爻 賮賷乇賱賷 鈥� 賵丕賱匕賷 毓丕丿 賲賳 賮賷鬲賳丕賲 賲毓胤賵亘丕賸 匕賴賳賷丕賸 賵毓丕胤賮賷丕賸 -貙 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賷賰鬲亘賴丕 乇賵孬 亘毓賳丕賷丞貙 賵賷亘乇夭 賱賳丕 鬲胤賵乇丕鬲賴丕 丕賱賮賰乇賷丞 賵丕賱毓丕胤賮賷丞 亘卮賰賱 賲鬲丿丕禺賱 賵賲亘賴乇 爻乇丿賷丕賸.
兀爻賱賵亘 乇賵孬 丕賱爻乇丿賷 賴賵 賲丕 兀亘賴乇賳賷 丨賯賷賯丞貙 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲丿丕禺賱 亘賷賳 賰賵賱賲賳 賵賲丕囟賷賴貙 賵丿賵賱賮賷賳 賵丨賷丕鬲賴丕 丕賱亘丕乇賷爻賷丞貙 賵賮賵賳賷丕 賵毓匕丕亘丕鬲賴丕貙 賵賱爻 賵噩賳賵賳賴貙 賴匕丕 睾賷乇 丕賱賮囟賷丨丞 丕賱賰亘賷乇丞 賮賷 丕賱亘賷鬲 丕賱兀亘賷囟貙 賰賱 賴匕丕 賷賰鬲亘賴 乇賵孬 亘賱丕 賱丨馗丞 鬲乇丿丿貙 亘賱丕 鬲乇賴賱 乇睾賲 丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲 丕賱賭 648 鈥� 胤亘毓丞 爻賱爻賱丞 丕賱噩賵丕卅夭 丕賱賰卅賷亘丞 噩丿丕賸 -.
毓乇賮鬲 賮賷賱賷亘 乇賵孬 賮賷 (爻禺胤)貙 賵賱賰賳賷 鬲毓乇賮鬲 毓賱賷賴 丨賯丕賸 賴賳丕貙 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱賲匕賴賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲賴夭賰 賲賳 丕賱兀毓賲丕賯貙 賵爻鬲賱鬲賯賷 禺賱丕賱賴丕 亘卮禺氐賷丞 賲賳 兀毓馗賲 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 兀賳噩亘賴丕 丕賱兀丿亘貙 (賰賵賱賲賳 爻賷賱賰) 丕賱夭賳噩賷 丕賱匕賷 鬲賳賰乇 賱兀氐賵賱賴 賵賱毓丕卅賱鬲賴貙 賵毓丕卮 丨賷丕鬲賴 賰賱賴丕 賰乇噩賱 兀亘賷囟貙 兀亘賷囟 廿賱賶 丿乇噩丞 兀賳賴 賵賷丕 賱賱爻禺乇賷丞 賷爻鬲賯賷賱 賮賷 兀賵丕禺乇 毓賲乇賴 賲賳 丕賱噩丕賲毓丞 亘毓丿 丕鬲賴丕賲賴 亘丕賱毓賳氐乇賷丞貙 賵囟丿 賲賳 !!! 囟丿 胤丕賱亘賷賳 夭賳噩賷賷賳 !!
兀賲乇賷賰丕 1998 賲貙 兀賳馗丕乇 賰賱 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷賷賳 賲鬲噩賴丞 賳丨賵 丕賱亘賷鬲 丕賱兀亘賷囟貙 賮囟賷丨丞 賲賵賳賷賰丕 賱賵賷賳爻賰賷 鬲賴夭 賰乇爻賷 丕賱乇卅賷爻貙 賵賮賷 噩丕賲毓丞 兀孬賷賳丕 賷爻賯胤 賰乇爻賷 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 丕賱賲丨鬲乇賲 賰賵賱賲賳 爻賷賱賰貙 亘毓丿 鬲賱賮馗賴 亘賰賱賲丞 氐睾賷乇丞 鬲鬲丨賲賱 賲毓賳賷賷賳 兀丨丿賴賲丕 毓賳氐乇賷貙 賴賰匕丕 賷噩丿 賳賮爻賴 兀賲丕賲 丕鬲賴丕賲丕鬲 毓賳氐乇賷丞貙 賷賵丕噩賴賴丕 亘睾囟亘 賵毓賳賮貙 賵禺賱丕賱 爻賳鬲賷賳 賲賳 丕賱氐乇丕毓 鬲賲賵鬲 夭賵噩鬲賴貙 賮賷賱噩兀 亘毓丿 噩賳丕夭鬲賴丕 廿賱賶 乇丕賵賷 丕賱賯氐丞 賳丕孬丕賳 夭賵賰乇賲丕賳 鈥� 丕爻鬲禺丿賲 賮賷賱賷亘 乇賵孬 賴匕賴 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賮賷 乇賵丕賷鬲賷賳 兀禺乇賷賷賳貙 丕毓鬲亘乇鬲丕 賲毓 丕賱賵氐賲丞 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 孬賱丕孬賷丞 -貙 賵賴賵 賲丐賱賮 賷胤丕賱亘賴 賰賵賱賲賳 亘鬲兀賱賷賮 賰鬲丕亘 毓賳 丨賷丕鬲賴貙 賵賲丕 鬲毓乇囟 賱賴貙 賴賰匕丕... 鬲賳賮鬲丨 丕賱亘賵丕亘丕鬲 賱賳丕貙 賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 賲丕囟賷 賰賵賱賲賳 爻賷賱賰 賵丨賯賷賯丞 兀賳賴 賲賳 兀氐賵賱 夭賳噩賷丞貙 賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 賵丕賱丿賴 賵毓丕卅賱鬲賴貙 賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 丨賷丕鬲賴 丕賱毓丕胤賮賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賳鬲賴賷 亘賮賵賳賷丕 賮賷乇賱賷貙 丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷賯賷賲 賲毓賴丕 毓賱丕賯丞 毓丕胤賮賷丞貙 乇睾賲 兀賳賴丕 賮賷 賳氐賮 毓賲乇賴貙 賵乇睾賲 兀賳賴丕 毓丕賲賱丞 賰丕丿丨丞貙 賮賷 賲賯丕亘賱賴 賴賵 丕賱兀爻鬲丕匕 丕賱噩丕賲毓賷 賵丕賱賲孬賯賮.
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲囟噩 亘卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丨賷丞貙 賷毓鬲賳賷 亘賴丕 乇賵孬 噩賷丿丕賸貙 賵賷毓乇囟 賱賳丕 丨賷賵丕鬲賴丕 亘爻禺丕亍貙 賲賳 賰賵賱賲賳 爻賷賱賰貙 廿賱賶 睾乇賷賲鬲賴 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 丿賵賱賮賷賳 乇賵賰爻貙 廿賱賶 賮賵賳賷丕 賮賷乇賱賷 丕賱毓卮賷賯丞 丕賱賲囟胤乇亘丞貙 賵夭賵噩賴丕 丕賱噩賳丿賷 丕賱爻丕亘賯 賱爻 賮賷乇賱賷 鈥� 賵丕賱匕賷 毓丕丿 賲賳 賮賷鬲賳丕賲 賲毓胤賵亘丕賸 匕賴賳賷丕賸 賵毓丕胤賮賷丕賸 -貙 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賷賰鬲亘賴丕 乇賵孬 亘毓賳丕賷丞貙 賵賷亘乇夭 賱賳丕 鬲胤賵乇丕鬲賴丕 丕賱賮賰乇賷丞 賵丕賱毓丕胤賮賷丞 亘卮賰賱 賲鬲丿丕禺賱 賵賲亘賴乇 爻乇丿賷丕賸.
兀爻賱賵亘 乇賵孬 丕賱爻乇丿賷 賴賵 賲丕 兀亘賴乇賳賷 丨賯賷賯丞貙 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲丿丕禺賱 亘賷賳 賰賵賱賲賳 賵賲丕囟賷賴貙 賵丿賵賱賮賷賳 賵丨賷丕鬲賴丕 丕賱亘丕乇賷爻賷丞貙 賵賮賵賳賷丕 賵毓匕丕亘丕鬲賴丕貙 賵賱爻 賵噩賳賵賳賴貙 賴匕丕 睾賷乇 丕賱賮囟賷丨丞 丕賱賰亘賷乇丞 賮賷 丕賱亘賷鬲 丕賱兀亘賷囟貙 賰賱 賴匕丕 賷賰鬲亘賴 乇賵孬 亘賱丕 賱丨馗丞 鬲乇丿丿貙 亘賱丕 鬲乇賴賱 乇睾賲 丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲 丕賱賭 648 鈥� 胤亘毓丞 爻賱爻賱丞 丕賱噩賵丕卅夭 丕賱賰卅賷亘丞 噩丿丕賸 -.
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