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Why do academics claim this novel isn't a critique of academia and political correctness?

>> No.12138141

>>12138136
Because the institution is afraid to admit their poster boy post-war writer Roth is a loose canon with very unpopular social and political commitments.

>> No.12138298

>>12138136
Is this book good? Roths Jewishness turns me off

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>that Yale lecture on this book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbqL2G_iQ-c
Hilarious. Life mimicking art.

>>12138298
All of Roth's books are great you fucking troglodyte.

>> No.12138336

>>12138141
They sound spooked.

>> No.12138349

>>12138141
>political commitments.

Lmao he was a lifelong democrat.

>> No.12138394

>>12138349
>Lmao he was a lifelong democrat.
got a source for that statement?

>> No.12138421

>>12138136
On the surface level it is, it explores other themes in much more detail though
>>12138298
It's the one of the best books I have read this year. My first Roth also. (I have started and didn't finish Portnoy's Complaint a few years back - not my cup of tea, but also his first novel)

>> No.12138422

>>12138312
What a fucking joke. Roth's personal explanation of the novel in the New Yorker just shows how much of a fucking joke academia can be

>> No.12139872

>>12138422
The young woman lecturing is basically exactly how I pictured Delphine Roux. Doesn't even seem like she read the book, looked at it's pages more like. It's really stunning.

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https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/137088/1_BrnoStudiesEnglish_43-2017-1_8.pdf?sequence=1

>mfw

>> No.12140326

>>12140232
Why would you admit to being a post-structuralist or to conducting a post-structuralist interpretation? Doesn't that virtually make the interpretation meaningless, almost by definition?

Fuck higher education

>> No.12140375

>>12138312
>female humanities prof wearing a scarf

why do they do this?

>> No.12141754

>>12138136
Because academia survives by bastardizing intelligent men who despised academia.