Henry Roth with William Freedman (interview date Fall 1979)
SOURCE: "Henry Roth in Jerusalem: An Interview," in The Literary Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, Fall, 1979, pp. 5-23.
[In the following interview, Roth discusses the mystical element in Call It Sleep, and describes his relationship to Israel.]
Five years ago, when I first met Henry Roth, it was in the same but in a very different place. He had come to Israel, then as now, on a kind of pilgrimage, an artist's search for the history and possibilities of self, but he had taken a different...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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