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Chapter 3 - Literary Conversations

from Part I - Life and Literary Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2021

Maggie McKinley
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Harper College
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. This chapter provides a glimpse into some of the relationships with writers from different generations, countries, and backgrounds that animated Roth’s life and enriched his fiction. Fierce defender of his friends, when it came to literature he was also an incisive critic. He famously withheld praise from his dying mentor Bernard Malamud, in whose eulogy he quoted William Blake: “Opposition is true friendship.”

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Print publication year: 2021

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