Patrick Roth

Ingo Roland Stoehr

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 25 Jun 1953
Activity 1979-ongoing

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Germany; United States

Activities

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Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Roth's Works

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Patrick Roth shares an interest in exploring the transcendental—the wonder of experiencing an epiphany that connects this world and another realm—with other contemporary German-language authors, ranging from Botho Strauss to Peter Weber and Urs Widmer. Continuing in the narrative tradition of Thomas Mann and James Joyce’s

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, Roth’s texts, however, have an additional quality that sets him apart even within the group of “epiphanic” writers. While his focus is on moral issues, he studies them through the deep-lying psychological lens of identity which, in turn, is autobiographically informed in the specific meaning that Roth is writing “from” America. Ultimately, the main difference from other authors’ texts is one of form and technique. The adaptation of cinematic…

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Citation: Stoehr, Ingo Roland. "Patrick Roth". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 January 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12208, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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