In the Egosphere
Adam Mars-Jones: The Plot against Roth, 23 January 2014
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
by Claudia Roth Pierpont.
Cape, 353 pp., £25, January 2014,978 0 224 09903 5 Show More
by Claudia Roth Pierpont.
Cape, 353 pp., £25, January 2014,
“... Flaubert enjoyed an easy access to these states of mind outside his writing life, but he scolded Louise Colet (in a letter that Roth quotes in My Life as a Man) for a poem in which personal emotion distorted her judgment: ‘You have turned art into an outlet for passion, a kind of chamberpot to catch an outflow. It smells bad; it smells of hate!’ Roth’s ... ”
