Each person represents his living space according to the possibilities of personal imagination. One specifically and in great detail examines the entire planet. Another is able to cover only the yard that he sees from the window. Philip Roth wrote his stories and novels about ordinary people.
Starting conditions
To engage in writing without any preparation is a futile exercise. Before introducing yourself as a writer, you need to spend some time in the shoes of the reader. The American prose writer Philip Roth already at a conscious age kept on his bookshelf the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Faulkner, Flaubert, Kafka. At the same time, he precisely distinguished the most famous works from each writer. Not to say that he liked the novel "War and Peace". However, Philip periodically looked in the book and made notes that are clear only to him alone.
The author of more than twenty-five novels was born on March 19, 1933 in a family of Jewish immigrants. The older brother was already growing up in the house. Parents, immigrants from Austria-Hungary, at that time lived in the town of Newark. My father tried to work with insurance agents. Mother was engaged in housework. Philip grew up and gained life experience in the midst of children like him. When the age approached, he was sent to a local school, where training was conducted in English. Roth studied well and even published a school wall newspaper.
In the literary field
Having received secondary education, Philip entered the university in the English language department. In 1954 he graduated and began working as a teacher at the school. On his own initiative, he served two years in the US Army. After the service, he entered the graduate school of the University of Chicago and received a master's degree in English literature. He taught literature at various universities for several years. After which he continued his scientific career at the University of Pensilvan. By this time, he already had small stories, short stories, and essays published in various newspapers and magazines.
The first storybook Goodbye Columbus was released in 1959. Three years later, on the shelves of bookstores appeared Roth’s novel “I don't care”. Then the author presented to the readers the novel utopia "Conspiracy against America." To Philip's surprise, this book became a bestseller. The writer sat at his desk every day at the same time. Meticulous reporters estimate that Roth "gave out" one full-fledged novel in two years.
