I recently re-read Philip Roth’s Everyman and it got me wondering if Philip Roth had been asked in an interview about aging. I tracked down a few video clips on YouTube.
In one of them, Roth says that the “standard story is that age brings about wisdom” and he doesn’t buy into that narrative. I do believe that Roth’s writing highlights how he’ s gained perspective on relationships between people and people and their own bodies. His series of books in the 1990s and first part of the 2000s were (for my money) the highlights of his career thus far. American Pastoral, I Married A Communist, The Human Stain, and Sabbath’s Theater are all amazing.
To learn more about Everyman click here for Amazon’s reviews on the book.
Below are three video clips of Roth discussing aging, Everyman and his career.
Here’s an interesting video of Roth looking back on the first 3 1/2 decades of his career:
