Word: roth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MASTURBATING HEROES dot Philip Roth's novels like so many used kleenex on the floor. But his 11th book, The Ghost Writer, would not be lightly tossed aside. It delves into the mind of a Jewish writer and surfaces only after revealing the harsh compromises that must be made to attain great stature as an author. One imagines Roth secreting himself one night in I.B. Singer's bedroom closet all the while scribbling a short story about what he sees. In the morning he discovers in his lap a small masterpiece, part autobiography, part fancy; but it is the whole...
...writer's self-sacrificial nature, insistent Jewish guilt, and sexual desire all torment Roth's hero, a young short story writer named Nathan Zuckerman. Nathan's dilemma concerns the purpose of his art: is his ultimate responsibility to himself or his Jewish heritage? Even the writer of the Bible must have paused to consider the personal and social consequences of his creation. In the end, Nathan, like Roth, chooses to write for himself and let the kleenex fall where they may. "There is obviously no simple way to be great," says Nathan...
FICTION: Cannibals and Missionaries, Mary McCarthy -Collected Stories, Paul Bowles -Endless Love, Scott Spencer -Letters, John Barth -McKay's Bees, Thomas McMahon -Sophie's Choice, William Styron -The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth...
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...been captured by the opposite end of the philosophical spectrum. The easily documented decline of productivity growth is attributed to a reduced rate of capital formation and diminished incentives to work. Excessive business and personal taxation are the depressants which produce these unfortunate results. In its extreme Kemp-Roth form, the damage to capital formation and work effort by the tax system is said to be so great that massive tax relief would create more supply than demand and lower inflation. This is indeed a counter-Keynesian conclusion since it associates a huge increase in fiscal stimulus with a reduction...