"Indignation"

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When I began Indignation, it's... it's really a book about a boy, a boy of 18 or so, I think. And I... that had nothing to do with Everyman in my mind, except that I knew my... my young hero was going to come to a bad end and... in the war, Korean War. And so I had to get him into the War, and the whole book consists of my working out his fate so that he ends... winds up in... in the War, as most college boys didn't in those years.

The fame of the American writer Philip Roth (1933-2018) rested on the frank explorations of Jewish-American life he portrayed in his novels. There is a strong autobiographical element in much of what he wrote, alongside social commentary and political satire. Despite often polarising critics with his frequently explicit accounts of his male protagonists' sexual doings, Roth received a great many prestigious literary awards which include a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997, and the 4th Man Booker International Prize in 2011.

Title: "Indignation"

Listeners: Christopher Sykes

Christopher Sykes is an independent documentary producer who has made a number of films about science and scientists for BBC TV, Channel Four, and PBS.

Tags: Indignation, Everyman, Korean War

Duration: 41 seconds

Date story recorded: March 2011

Date story went live: 18 March 2013