This indictment is a kind of fever that flares up from time… - Philip Roth

" "
This indictment is a kind of fever that flares up from time to time. It flared up after "Defender of the Faith," again after "Goodbye Columbus," and understandably it went way up — to about 107 — after "Portnoy's Complaint." Now there's just a low-grade fever running, nothing to worry about.

Philip Roth

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Philip Roth

<noinclude></noinclude> Philip Milton Roth (19 March 1933 – 22 May 2018) was an American novelist. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his novel American Pastoral. In May 2011, he received the Man Booker International Prize, for achievement in fiction on the world stage, becoming the fourth winner of the biennial award.

Also Known As

Birth Name: Philip Milton Roth

All quotes from Philip Roth Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Philip Roth:

Martin Amis Salman Rushdie Robertson Davies Harlan Ellison John Updike

Additional quotes by Philip Roth

[H]er breasts swam towards me like two pink-nosed fish and she let me hold them.

I'm not trying to turn you into a bourgeois, Naomi. If the bed is too luxurious, we can do it on the floor.

England’s made a Jew of me in only eight weeks, which, on reflection, might be the least painful method. A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

This indictment is a kind of fever that flares up from time to time. It flared up after "Defender of the Faith," again after "Goodbye Columbus," and … - Philip Roth

About Philip Roth

Also Known As

Additional quotes by Philip Roth