ellauri106.html on line 67: In October 1956, Philip Roth met the secretary Margaret Martinson Williams in Chicago, whom he married in February 1959. The divorced mother of two children of completely different social origins, who was four years older than him, initially gave Roth the feeling of both a challenge and a liberation. Later, however, the problems and arguments in their relationship increased, which the writer dealt with in retrospect in works such as When She Was Good ( Lucy Nelson or Die Moral, 1967) or My Life As a Man (Mein Leben als Mann, 1974). In his autobiography The Facts (The Facts, 1988) Margaret even advanced as Josie Jensen to the “counter-self”, to the “arch enemy and nemesis ” of the author. The couple separated in 1963, but Margaret Roth refused to consent to a divorce. Five years later she died in a car accident.
ellauri106.html on line 106: That same year, rather than wait to be drafted, Roth enlisted in the army. Roth enlisted in the Army that year to avoid being drafted and assigned to unpleasant duty like the infantry. Fortunately he suffered a back injury during basic training and was given a medical discharge. Who knows. He returned to Chicago in 1956 to study for a PhD in literature but dropped out after one term. It was a yeasty environment for a young writer. Saul Bellow was a contemporary and with some what similar backgrounds and interests they could not avoid being rivals. During that year he met a lovely shiksa waitress Margaret Martinson, a single woman with a small child. He was smitten. An intense, but often troubled relationship ensued. At the end of the year he dropped out of the U of C and headed to the University of Iowa to teach in its creative writing program. None the less, whatever he may have said, Roth was not happy there, perhaps because the semi-rural Midwesterness of Ames was alien to him. After a while with Martinson in tow he moved on to a similar position at Princeton, another WASP bastion but one with even more prestige. Everyone who knew him recognized Roth as an early comer. He later continued his academic career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught comparative literature before retiring from teaching in 1991. Roth started teaching literature in the late 1960s at the University of Pennsylvania. The 1969 feature film adaptation of Goodbye, Columbus coincided with the publication of Portnoy’s Complaint, which soon became a best-seller amid controversy for its prurient content. (Those who've read it will likely not forget Portnoy's "love affair" with mom´s slab of liver in the fridge.)
ellauri106.html on line 179: Today the lengthy obituaries are all laudatory. Tomorrow or the next day I can safely predict that the backlash will begin with harshly critical essays. Leading the way will be Feminists critics who will denounce the whole cabal of elite white men as the custodians of the literary cannon. More pointedly they will charge Roth with toxic masculinity and misogyny and will come loaded for bear with plenty of quotes from his work. They will also have the example and testimony of his two ex-wives, both of whom showed up thinly disguised in his novels—a Margaret Martinson in When She Was Good and actress Clare Bloom in I Married a Communist. Bloom penned her own bitter exposé of their 14-year-long relationship and four year marriage in he memoir Leaving the Doll’s House.
ellauri106.html on line 236: My Life as a Man is not nearly so consistently enjoyable as Portnoy's Complaint, but it is the product of a more painful period in the author's life. In his autobiography, Roth reveals that much of Tarnopol´s life is based on his own experiences; for example, Roth´s destructive marriage to Margaret Martinson, which is portrayed through Tarnopol´s relationship with the character of Maureen.
ellauri106.html on line 241: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN Who are Philip Roth’s ex-wives Claire Bloom and Margaret Martinson, when did they get divorced and did he have any children?
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ellauri106.html on line 255: Who are Philip Roth´s ex-wives Claire Bloom and Margaret Martinson? Have they got anything in common? I bet they were spitting images of Phil´s mother, one way or another. Roth was married twice – to Margaret Martinson from 1959 to 1963. He met Martinson in 1956 and married her three years later. Roth claims she used someone else’s urine sample to persuade him she was pregnant and trick him into marriage.
ellauri106.html on line 259: Martinson inspired “The Monkey” (Mary Jane Reed) in novel Portnoy’s Complaint and Maureen Tarnopol in My Life as a Man.
ellauri106.html on line 273: Roth claimed his first wife, Margaret Martinson, used someone else’s urine sample to persuade him she was pregnant and trick him into marrying her.
ellauri109.html on line 537: In Chicago, Roth met Margaret (Maggie) Martinson, a divorcée with two children who came from a small Midwestern town and whose tumultuous life (an alcoholic father, a brute of an ex-husband) fascinated him with its “goyish chaos” and provided material for his fiction.
ellauri109.html on line 553: When Martinson crashed dead 1968, the vengeful jew whistled all the way to the grave.
ellauri160.html on line 251: Täi olen, ja niitä olemme kaikki maailman korkeissa metsissä. Mutta mukavia ja kaksijalkaisia. Ja paljon me osaamme, paljon me uneksimme ja paljoon me pystymme. Me näemme kauas ohi auringon ja kauas ohi kuun. Ja tiedämme, että meidän pitää kuolla, mutta kuljemme silti pää pystyssä. (Harry Martinson)
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ellauri192.html on line 277: It is this natural parochialism that accounts for the awkward plethora of Scandinavian winners. Charity does seem to begin at home. The catalogue runs from the Swedish poet Verner von Heidenstam, crowned in 1916, and the Danish novelist Karl Gjellerup, chosen a year later, to Frans Eemil Sillanpaa of Finland and the more recent ''in-house'' choice of Harry Martinson. Of this longish list, only Knut Hamsun (1920) is an undoubtedly major nazi figure. Sillanpaa is so pathetic we don't even bother to find the outlandish dots that apparently mar his name.
ellauri246.html on line 87: Lindegren oli Ruotsin akatemian jäsen 1962–1968. A-ha! Hänet valittiin Ruotsin akatemiaan Dag Hammarskjöldin seuraajaksi tämän kuoleman jälkeen. Hän oli Bonniers Litterära Magasinin, Stockholms-Tidningenin ja Dagens Nyheterin kirjallisuuskriitikko. Vuosina 1948–1950 hän oli aikakauskirja Prisman ja Alepan päätoimittaja. Hänen isoisänsä oli säveltäjä Johan Lindegren. Muikean näköinen Lindegren teki oopperalibrettoja, muun muassa Karl-Birger Blomdahlin oopperaan Aniara, joka perustuu 1/2nobelisti Harry Martinsonin runoelmaan Aniara (a-ha!).
ellauri283.html on line 69: Ekman blev 1978 ledamot av Svenska Akademien på stol nummer 15 (efter Harry Martinson), som den tredje kvinnan – efter Selma Lagerlöf och Elin Wägner. Efter Salman Rushdie-affären 1989 deltog hon dock inte i Akademiens arbete.
xxx/ellauri057.html on line 1344: Katri Vala kuoli tubiin Eksjön parantolassa 28. toukokuuta 1944 42-vuotiaana. Hänelle pidettiin omaisten ja Ruotsin kirjailijaliiton järjestämät hautajaiset siellä, mutta tuhkaläjä siirrettiin sodan päätyttyä Suomeen toukokuussa 1945, ja haudattiin hänen kuolemansa vuosipäivänä Marjatanmäen puistoon, joka myöhemmin nimettiin Katri Valan puistoksi. Katri käänsi jotain Moa Martinsonia, ja Arvid Mörne käänsi Katria. Manus manum lavat.
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 432: Margaret (Maggie) Martinson, a divorcée with two children who came from a small
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 435: fiction. When Roth learned, in 1968, that Martinson had been killed in a car
xxx/ellauri138.html on line 302: One day Philip handed me the manuscript of Notes for My Biographer. 'Take it,' he said, holding out the stack of pages held together by a large rubber band.'I want you to read it.' The book was a rebuttal to Claire Bloom's Leaving a Doll's House, Philip's ex-wife's account of their marriage, which was published in 1996. Many of the stories he'd already told me. He'd talked a lot to me about both Claire and his first wife, Margaret Martinson.
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 574: Tiistairistikon vastaantulija Eyvind Johnson nappasi puolet Martinsonin Harryn noopelista. Mixi niin?
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 579: Två av de mest häpnadsväckande pristagarna av Nobels litteraturpris är utan tvekan de båda arbetarförfattarna Eyvind Johnson och Harry Martinson, som delade på priset 1974. Inte så mycket för att någon hävdade att de inte var förtjänta av priset av litterära skäl, utan snarare för att båda två vid tidpunkten för prisutdelningen satt i Svenska akademien och därmed gav priset till sig själva, eller mer korrekt sagt, till varann. Hur genant detta än är så här i efterhand är det ändå värt att lyfta deras författarskap som betraktas som en viktig del i den mer eller mindre unikt svenska arbetarlitteraturen.
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 583: Även Harry Martinson debuterade som poet men det är förmodligen hans prosa som är mest känd. Som prosaförfattare debuterade han med reseskildringen “Resor utan mål” som följdes upp med reseskildringen “Kap Farväl!”. Mest känd är han nog dock för sin uppväxtskildring “Nässlorna blomma”, som handlar om en föräldralös pojkes uppväxt i Fattigsverige. En av hans mer otippade framgångar var rymdeposet “Aniara” som handlar om ett rymdskepp som transporterar flyktingar från jorden till andra planeter på grund av miljöförstöring och kärnvapenkrig.
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 588: LAUREATES: Harry Martinson and Eyvind Johnson (1974, Sweden)

xxx/ellauri193.html on line 589: BOOKS READ: Martinson, Views from a Tuft of Grass (translated by Lars Nordström and Erland Anderson); Johnson, The Days of His Grace (translated by Elspeth Harley Schubert)
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 598: The Swedes feel differently, though. The presentation speech lays out a “cut-out silhouette of two remarkable literary profiles,” drawing parallels between two writers whose work is not very similar, but whose lives curiously are. Both ­Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson come from hardscrabble backgrounds and emerged as unlikely, startling literary figures. “They are representative,” the speech tells us, “of the many proletarian writers or working-class poets who, on a wide front, broke into our literature, not to ravage and plunder, but to enrich it with their fortunes. Their arrival meant an influx of experience and creative energy, the value of which can hardly be exaggerated.”
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 608: Harry Martinson’s Views from a Tuft of Grass is a collection of short essays, mostly on the natural world. I give this a three.
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