
- ISBN 0141188650
- ISBN13 978-0141188652
- Language English
- Author Henry Roth
- Publisher Bard Avon, 1969 (1969)
- Pages 464
- Formats doc azw lit txt
- Category Fiction
- Subcategory Contemporary
- Size ePub 1748 kb
- Size Fb2 1584 kb
- Rating: 4.8
- Votes: 557
Henry Roth, twenty-eight when Call It Sleep was published, was as open to the many strategies of modernism as he was to political insurgency. The book owes a great deal to a remarkable woman teaching literature at New York University, Eda Lou Walton.
Henry Roth, twenty-eight when Call It Sleep was published, was as open to the many strategies of modernism as he was to political insurgency. Her bond with Roth helped make his book possible.
Call It Sleep is a 1934 novel by Henry Roth. The book is about a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century. Though it earned acclaim, the book sold poorly and went out of print for close to 30 years.
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Henry Roth Call It Sleep To Eda Lou Walton INTRODUCTION Call It Sleep is the most profound novel of Jewish life that I have ever read by an American. It is a work of high art, written out of the full resources of modernism. Читать онлайн Call It Sleep. We can see now that the book belongs to the side of the 1930s that still believed in the sacredness of literature, whether or not it presumed to change the world.
When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim, though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves--and still enjoys. Having sold to date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the "dangerously imaginative" child coming of age in the slums of New York.
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Summer had come and the advanced grade and the glowing, incalculable and unlimned vista of the school vacation-that had remained unlimned. But David felt little disappointment on that score. r boys boast of prolonged visits to the seashore or to the mountains or to camps. For him the mere passing of time was a joy. The body was aware of a lyric indolence, a golden lolling within itself. He felt secure at home and in the street-that was all the activity he asked
It seems that throughout Call it Sleep, David is often troubled by questions of belonging Works Cited: – Roth, Henry.
It seems that throughout Call it Sleep, David is often troubled by questions of belonging. The only source of tenderness or receptiveness he receives at home comes from his mother as opposed to when he interacts with his father or others out on the streets, where he is welcomed harshly by outright cruelty or the hard facts of life. David’s own personal situation was likely, and probably still is, a common state of affairs for most ethnic groups. Humans need to have a sense of belonging; somewhere they can feel welcome, relaxed, and safe. Works Cited: – Roth, Henry.
When Henry Roth published "Call It Sleep," his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its d author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves.
Call It Sleep rare book for sale. Written over a span of four years, Call It Sleep went largely unnoticed in its initial 1934 release.