NEW YORK: Prolific novelist Philip Roth, a dominant power in American literature throughout the latter half of the 20th century, has died on the age of 85.
Roth's demise on Tuesday, first reported by the New Yorker and The New York Times, was once later showed by Roth's literary agent Andrew Wylie. He said the cause was once congestive heart failure.
Roth received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his acclaimed novel "American Pastoral."
"I'm in a state of shock. I'm stunned and speechless. He was a truth teller," Roth's buddy Judith Thurman, additionally a author, said.
A prolific essayist and critic, Roth was once best known for mining the Jewish-American experience in his paintings.
He first completed fame for his 1969 novel "Portnoy's Complaint," about a gorgeous teen named Alexander Portnoy.
His titanic stature on the post-World War II literary scene got here from the universality of his message -- in his personal words: "I don't write Jewish, I write American."
He long controlled to sustain his literary output both in terms of high quality as well as amount, as exemplified by his extensively admired political trilogy that incorporated "American Pastoral", "I Married a Communist" (1998) and "The Human Stain" (2000).
The adorned writer received most most sensible literary honours, however the coveted Nobel Literature Prize eluded him.
Being snubbed for the Nobel yearly had "become a joke" for the writer, said his buddy French author Josyane Savigneau on Wednesday.
"Every year we talked about it, it became funny," Savigneau said, adding that fab writers equivalent to Marcel Proust and James Joyce had additionally missed out on the prize.
Philip Milton Roth was once born on March 19, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, the grandson of European Jews who were part of the 19th-century wave of immigration to the United States.
In 2012, Roth said that his most up-to-date ebook, "Nemesis," revealed two years earlier, could be his closing, after having reread all his books.
"I decided that I was done with fiction," he said.
"I don't want to read any more of it, write any more of it, and I don't even want to talk about it anymore... It's enough. I no longer feel this dedication to write what I have experienced my whole life."
Thurman said that once he stopped writing Roth spent his unfastened time studying and swimming, and assembly friends.
"He was such a driven perfectionist, so when he felt his power ebbing, he wanted to quit at the top of his game, and he did," she said.
Roth said he was once wiped out in an interview this yr with The New York Times.
"I was by this time no longer in possession of the mental vitality or the physical fitness needed to mount and sustain a large creative attack of any duration," Roth said.
The newspaper remembered Roth as "a passionate student of American history and the American vernacular. And more than just about any other writer of his time he was tireless in his exploration of male sexuality."
Roth's demise on Tuesday, first reported by the New Yorker and The New York Times, was once later showed by Roth's literary agent Andrew Wylie. He said the cause was once congestive heart failure.
Roth received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his acclaimed novel "American Pastoral."
"I'm in a state of shock. I'm stunned and speechless. He was a truth teller," Roth's buddy Judith Thurman, additionally a author, said.
A prolific essayist and critic, Roth was once best known for mining the Jewish-American experience in his paintings.
He first completed fame for his 1969 novel "Portnoy's Complaint," about a gorgeous teen named Alexander Portnoy.
His titanic stature on the post-World War II literary scene got here from the universality of his message -- in his personal words: "I don't write Jewish, I write American."
He long controlled to sustain his literary output both in terms of high quality as well as amount, as exemplified by his extensively admired political trilogy that incorporated "American Pastoral", "I Married a Communist" (1998) and "The Human Stain" (2000).
The adorned writer received most most sensible literary honours, however the coveted Nobel Literature Prize eluded him.
Being snubbed for the Nobel yearly had "become a joke" for the writer, said his buddy French author Josyane Savigneau on Wednesday.
"Every year we talked about it, it became funny," Savigneau said, adding that fab writers equivalent to Marcel Proust and James Joyce had additionally missed out on the prize.
Philip Milton Roth was once born on March 19, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, the grandson of European Jews who were part of the 19th-century wave of immigration to the United States.
In 2012, Roth said that his most up-to-date ebook, "Nemesis," revealed two years earlier, could be his closing, after having reread all his books.
"I decided that I was done with fiction," he said.
"I don't want to read any more of it, write any more of it, and I don't even want to talk about it anymore... It's enough. I no longer feel this dedication to write what I have experienced my whole life."
Thurman said that once he stopped writing Roth spent his unfastened time studying and swimming, and assembly friends.
"He was such a driven perfectionist, so when he felt his power ebbing, he wanted to quit at the top of his game, and he did," she said.
Roth said he was once wiped out in an interview this yr with The New York Times.
"I was by this time no longer in possession of the mental vitality or the physical fitness needed to mount and sustain a large creative attack of any duration," Roth said.
The newspaper remembered Roth as "a passionate student of American history and the American vernacular. And more than just about any other writer of his time he was tireless in his exploration of male sexuality."
American literary giant Philip Roth dead at 85
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