tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post3238685730187583022..comments2024-03-29T03:19:09.227-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: MILESTONESRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-31658131087809305402018-05-24T10:07:46.685-04:002018-05-24T10:07:46.685-04:00Thanks for the tip. Maybe someone will view some...Thanks for the tip. Maybe someone will view some of it.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-48776404983566575002018-05-24T03:54:23.038-04:002018-05-24T03:54:23.038-04:00Off topic, but I think Prof. Wolff might be intere...Off topic, but I think Prof. Wolff might be interested:<br /><br />Robert Paul Wolff on Karl Marx – Lecture Series<br />Posted on 20 May 2018 by David Fields<br />https://urpe.wordpress.com/2018/05/20/robert-paul-wolff-on-karl-marx-lecture-series/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-65082906021017503902018-05-23T15:51:42.263-04:002018-05-23T15:51:42.263-04:00I'm not yet sixty, but having read three or fo...I'm not yet sixty, but having read three or four of his novels over the years, among them the gloriously filthy Sabbath's Theater, more recently The Human Stain, I can testify that Roth's fiction reminds me of my own mortality. But at least they also made me laugh, if uncomfortably. Dean C. Rowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846388304210211279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-71554594610011295312018-05-23T11:53:32.083-04:002018-05-23T11:53:32.083-04:00I'm originally from Newark, New Jersey as is...I'm originally from Newark, New Jersey as is Roth and Jewish like him, so I recognize places, even streets, and sociological realities from my childhood in some of Roth's fiction, for example, Goodbye Columbus or American Pastoral. <br /><br />If Roth were not from Newark, I doubt that he would interest me much. There are works which portray human realities and it matters little where they take place: Anna Karenina would be great art whether it takes place in Russia or in Chicago. It is of zero interest that Hamlet takes place in Denmark, not Portugal, but for me at least Roth's value has to do with bringing back stuff from my childhood.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-52751526113156009062018-05-23T11:41:08.787-04:002018-05-23T11:41:08.787-04:00David, isn't it unusual for dystopian let alon...David, isn't it unusual for dystopian let alone utopian works of fiction to come to pass? His body of work as a whole hearkens back to a lost age as much as Twain and Salinger do. It is sad and mortifying that Phillip Roth lives on in The Plot Against Americahoward bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-61448374460907658742018-05-23T11:04:27.422-04:002018-05-23T11:04:27.422-04:00Philip Roth's America lives on in The Plot Aga...Philip Roth's America lives on in <i>The Plot Against America</i>.Ludwig Richterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145442092958521609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-71130994951671448422018-05-23T10:23:47.743-04:002018-05-23T10:23:47.743-04:00The Breast was like The Metamorphosis only with an...The Breast was like The Metamorphosis only with an extra dash of eros.<br />It is a milestone- someone, I think, can write Woody Allen's New York- or Phillip Roth's America- Phillip Roth is gone and so is his Americahoward bnoreply@blogger.com