What Happens to Philip Rothâs Legacy Now?
His single authorized biography is mired in controversy. Scholars say it shouldnât be the last word, but they are struggling for access to his vast and in some cases inaccessible private archives.
Philip Roth at his New York City home in 2018. His friends worry that the controversy around his biography, published this year, has affected his legacy.Credit.Philip Montgomery for The New York Times
June 4, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Late in his life, Philip Roth occasionally joked that he had two great calamities ahead of him: death and a biography. âLetâs hope the first comes first,â he said in a 2013 interview.
“The Man Who Lived Underground,” a novel publishers rejected in the 1940s, is about an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple.
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The finds, ranging from just a few millimeters to a thumbnail in size, are the first to be unearthed in archaeological excavations in the Judean Desert in about 60 years.
by the Greek playwright Euripides. Of these, ten called the “select
plays,” are accompanied in L by ancient commentaries and also
appear in other medieval manuscripts; this group includes some of
Euripides’ best-known works, including the Medea. The other eight,
which appear in alphabetical order, without commentary. The Electra is
one of the alphabeticals.
Statements given?
commentaries in extant medieval manuscripts.
B. The select plays are accompanied by ancient commentaries
because they were the best known of Euripides’ works.
C. No commentaries were written about Euripides’ Electra in
ancient times.
unaccompanied by ancient commentary.
in any extant medieval manuscript.
First, there s nothing to suggest that the alphabeticals do not also include some of Euripedes best-known works. For all we know from the question, Electra might be the best known of Euripedes plays. The select plays only include some of Euripides’ best-known works . A and B are o