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May 31th 2006

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As an Englishman I ... ( 10 months ago by queenban)

As an Englishman I struggle to identify with the potrait of nationalism a lot of the US greats depict. I'm an avid reader but I'm often left jealous towards the US readers that connect with these amazing novels. (Pynchon, Roth, DeLillo etc.) where is England going? and whose writing this journey now, like the US writers are? What great English writers are there now who write about our country and where it's going? Everything's americanised. Mcewan maybe? but he's scorned upon. What is England?

Happy birthday, ... ( 9 months ago by mkl62)

Happy birthday, Philip. 3-19-08. Sakes alive, 75.

well, your empire's ... ( 9 months ago by painim)

well, your empire's over, right? your literature with those themes vaded with it

Don't be silly. Our ... ( 9 months ago by queenban)

Don't be silly. Our literature didn't 'Vade' after the decline of our empire, read Greene or Faulks, or Betjeman or Larkin, I'm not talking about the decline of an empire I'm talking about now. Post war. Not that Sweeden had a lot to do with the liberation of Europe.

I think I know what ... ( 9 months ago by timboslayer)

I think I know what you mean. I was reading critics' opinions on the Booker Prize and what it currently represents, and the feeling was that we have LOTS of good writers at the moment but no one really to match the Americans when it comes to national(ist) portrayals. However, there was a theme amongst several of them (and I don't think it was just wishful thinking/romantic yearning) that Britain is on the brink of a surge of new writers - given that we have proportionally more writers than ever.

I think felt Lawson ... ( 9 months ago by timboslayer)

I think felt Lawson (who almost idolises Roth) was more pleased to get this interview than ever! Roth doesn't do many interviews anyway - and Lawson is often a bit flippant and jokey with most of his interviewees. This time you can tell he doesn't want to mess it up - no jibes, interruptions. Just listening.

Perhaps tossing an ... ( 9 months ago by dinnerbucket9)

Perhaps tossing an Austrailian into the mix would make things worse? And better. Peter Carey well deserved the Booker Prize for The True History of the Kelly Gang [ ach, the Irish are everywhere and nowhere and usually produce titans like Joyce and Beckett] and remains Undead.

That said, you can ... ( 9 months ago by dinnerbucket9)

That said, you can boast about Ian McEwan long and loud. Atonement, or at least the firt two thirds of it, is the most perfectly measured and structured and....delicatley calibrated novel I have read in ages.

trully one of the ... ( 7 months ago by jazzmanEE)

trully one of the greatest authors of our times.

¡Viva Roth! ( 7 months ago by menorca1571)

¡Viva Roth!

in a word roth= ... ( 6 months ago by jazzmanEE)

in a word roth=genius

Excellent! thanks ... ( 5 months ago by geniuschristie)

Excellent! thanks for posting this!

Shut up-you ruined ... ( 5 months ago by FrenchArmy76)

Shut up-you ruined the entire video for me by bringing up your stupid jewishness :) clearly all the books you read did nothing for you because you sound like a stupid kiddo with no depth.

Moron, what does ... ( 5 months ago by FrenchArmy76)

Moron, what does the literature of America have to do with England? How can the lit of england be americanised? maybe it is because your country england only produces Indian writers and no english ones :p maybe that is where it is going- to India.

No mate, you've ... ( 5 months ago by queenban)

No mate, you've missed my point.
I was simply pointing out that a lot of great American writers have constructed their magnum opus' purely on the theme of their country and the direction in which it's headed. English writers, however, don't. I don't know why I feel the need to respond to a frenchman on the subject of national identity through the medium of literature, but you took a mere opinion for succinct scripture. Please don't call me a moron either, we've (thankfully) never met.

He looks like a rat ... ( 3 months ago by skutari)

He looks like a rat!! maybe Phlip Rat will be his perfect name??

I liked the last 2 ... ( 3 months ago by yarrr426)

I liked the last 2 mins. especially.

"He looks like a ... ( 2 months ago by BlackProteus)

"He looks like a rat!! maybe Phlip Rat will be his perfect name??"
Yeah, only good-looking people write good books. That's why Tom Cruise recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Portnoy's complaint ... ( 2 months ago by OscarLevancy)

Portnoy's complaint: awesome!

Roth will get the ... ( 2 months ago by MrtvaPriroda)

Roth will get the Nobel never. But that don't mean nothing cause he might not be the same bracket with Pynchon, but he is one exceptional writer.Thou the american for the Nobel good enough these is only Pynchon. And not because he is an american but because he is the greatest living writer never won the Nobel.

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Roth is really a ... ( 2 months ago by wuz352)

Roth is really a great novelist. The one down turn of his writing is that if you aren't American... well, you won't be able to feel the full grasp of his writings. Great words of Pynchon--one of my favorites as well.

Pynchon has written ... ( 1 month ago by molloyx)

Pynchon has written 3 good novels; The Crying of Lot 49, V. and Gravitys Rainbow. He has produced nothing of value in the past, oh, 35 years.
Roth has written at least a dozen novels that are of the highest caliber and the quality of his work in the last 15 years is unrivaled. Anywhere. [ you might want to check out his novella, The Prague Orgy, Mrtv].

classic, although i ... ( 1 month ago by 888edward888)

classic, although i stillfeel nal bandian has a better backhand es1

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