 To become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies America's story, the high drama that is upping and leaving — and the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands.  The Human Stain: A Novel - Page 344by Philip Roth - 2000 - 376 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Jonathan M. Hansen - Political Science - 2010 - 278 pages
...table, devastating her, of course, but once and for all freeing himself to pursue the American Dream — "the high drama that is upping and leaving — and...the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands" (HS, 342). Energy and cruelty are Roth's operative themes: cruelty, because exchanging identity entails... | |
 | Michael T. Gilmore - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 240 pages
...is allotted the voice of condemnation, and honesty compels Roth/Zuckerman not to scant the pain of "upping and leaving— and the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands" (p. 342). But on balance, and it is really no contest, we are asked to take Coleman's deception as... | |
 | Ross Posnock, Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 334 pages
...another purpose than passing. The deck-clearing move to sever ties and go east was Guston's version of "the drama that underlies America's story, the high drama that is upping and leaving," as Roth writes of Coleman Silk, with whom Guston shares, if not passing, a passion for self-invention.... | |
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