I found that really I liked the bigger thing, the novel. I was trying to figure out what a novel was, what a short story was. There's no way in which I've mastered writing a novel. When She Was Good and Portnoy's Complaint, could have been written by four different people, I think. I think many writers, when they read their apprentice work - which is what I consider this stuff to be - are made uncomfortable by how young they were. I don't think I'm alone in that kind of reaction. I mean, I know vaguely what they're about and I know vaguely the way they're written, but I haven't read them in - I don't know when - 30 years?.
I never would have thought of such a thing, nor did anybody else in the neighborhood." So here was this 100 percent Jewish neighborhood, and I didn't know a single soul to wear a skullcap, which tells you a lot about the fierce secularization, the fierce Americanization of my generation and my parents' generation.Īuthor Interviews Polio Breaks Out In Newark In Roth's 'Nemesis' Someone asked me about that recently: Did I wear a skullcap as a kid? I said, "Outrageous. But I never saw a Jew in a skullcap on the street in my life growing up. It was a Jewish neighborhood, a Jewish grade school, a Jewish high school. On the secularization of his generation and his parents' generation But once one left the neighborhood, one wasn't a Newark Jew, one was an American.
There was a certain amount of xenophobia there was a certain amount of hostility. I think, as kids, we experience these differences locally, in the city, because we lived in neighborhoods that were defined that way. Author Interviews At 80, Philip Roth Reflects On Life, Literature And The Beauty Of Naps
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