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Philip Roth: 10 quotes on his birthday
Philip Roth is one of today鈥檚 most controversial and decorated literary heavyweights. His corpus 鈥� comprising several novels, short stories, memoirs, and criticism 鈥� anatomizes the art of writing, sexuality, the malleability of identity, spiritual malaise, and cultural anomie. Having won just about every major literary prize, Roth was named 鈥�America鈥檚 Best Novelist鈥� by Time Magazine in 2001, and famed literary critic Harold Bloom includes six of Roth鈥檚 novels in his "Western Canon." However, his fiction continues to elicit the ire of Jewish-Americans, gays, and feminists. Steve Martin, delivering the citation for Roth鈥檚 2002 National Book Foundation鈥檚 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters observed, 鈥淟ike three great modern writers he deeply admires, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, Philip Roth has invented a style by turns obsessive, lyrical, erudite, and of necessity, painfully human.鈥� Below are 10 quotes to celebrate Roth鈥檚 79th birthday.
1. The human condition
