@HeerJeet you have more faith in academia than I do.
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@StephenMarche In general, while I love Roth (and to a lesser extent Bellow), it's a category mistake to read them as political historians.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@StephenMarche Well even if I agree with a novelist's politics (Atwood, say) I don't read them for their political analysis or as historians1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@StephenMarche It's a powerful novel about family dynamics but not very reliable guide to what the New Left was all about (nor should it be)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet And the same phony self-righteousness threatens to overwhelm us again.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@StephenMarche Hippies barely exist as plausible figures in novel. Book is about father baffled by daughter who does strange, violent things3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@StephenMarche Roth is using history as imaginative writers often do, to dramatize personal concerns. He's not writing history.
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