The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make… - Philip Hensher
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make…
- Philip Hensher
I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't. - Philip Hensher
I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.
Fiction allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading … - Philip Hensher
Fiction allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading …
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