I’ve never been one to shy from controversy and Roth, I think, embellishes the American spirit better than others who merely claim ownership of America without any foresight into why or for what purpose. It is perhaps an unusual choice when asked what book defines America for me, but Roth is fully invested in the American consciousness and his version could only have been written by someone who cares deeply about what America means and how best to relay its people’s perspective. Read Treasure Island (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Robert Louis Stevenson available from Rakuten Kobo. The vividness of America’s pogroms is terrifying and Roth delights in his ability to make the most absurd of situations real and doubtlessly convincing.
Thus emerges an America more aligned with the policies of the Third Reich than with the allies, and becomes all the more troublesome for a Jewish family targeted by an increasingly hostile state. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Unlike the actual events surrounding America’s involvement, Roth constructs an alternate reality where Charles Lindbergh, the famous pilot and Nazi sympathizer, climbs to political prominence and, in a juicy moment of American politicking, succeeds in beating the incumbent and well-respected Franklin D. The novel follows a working class Jewish-American family during the eve of World War II. And it is at an intellectual high-point with The Plot Against America. Few writers working today have the narrative depth and complexity as Philip Roth. As examples of visual and phenomenological perspectivism, Faulkners The Sound and The Fury and As I Lay Dying were explored for their correlations to.
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