Ep 39: Going Berserk in the American Pastoral
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The episode discusses Philip Roth's 'American Pastoral' and its exploration of history and violence through the character of Seymour 'Swede' Levov.
Send us Fan Mail In 1997 Philip Roth entered a brilliant late phrase of a career that no one really saw coming. While certainly one of the greats of later twentieth century American fiction, he was widely seen as spinning variations on his favorite fixations, sex and women (not necessarily in that order). But with American Pastoral he took on history and into the lives of solid citizens a force of violent disorder he called "the berserk." For most of his life Seymour "Swede" Levov seems gifte...
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