Intellpuke: German news magazine Der Spiegel recently
interviewed American author Philip Roth. The interview was published on
Spiegel Online's edition for Friday, February 8, 2008. Among the items
discussed with Roth in the interview were his latest book, growing old, why George W.
Bush is the worst American president ever and why Roth never gives out
his cell pone number. The interview follows:
Philip Roth, who will be 75 in March, is one of America's most
critically acclaimed living writers. His 1969 novel "Portnoy's
Complaint" brought him fame, and he went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for
1997's "American Pastoral."
Many of his novels feature Roth's fictional alter ego, Nathan
Zuckerman. Zuckerman appears again in Roth's latest work, "Exit Ghost,"
where he returns to New York after many years of seclusion in rural New
England.
SPIEGEL talked to Roth about "Exit Ghost," the U.S. election and the pleasures of rural life.
SPIEGEL: Mister Roth, how often have you tried to kill Nathan Zuckerman, the hero or narrator of so many of your novels?
Philip
Roth:
(laughs) I don't know - do you?
SPIEGEL: Three times. Once in "Deception" ...
Roth: Oh, yes, I forgot that one.
SPIEGEL: And then again in "The Counterlife" at the age of 44.
He's quite alive again, he is 71 now, but in your new book "Exit Ghost"
you kill him once more.
Roth: I haven't killed him. I just sent him home.
SPIEGEL: "Gone for good" is what you write. Does that make a difference?
Roth: It certainly does.
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