ellauri105.html on line 484: Tuo pappismunkki oli kirkolliselta nimeltään Mefodi ja maalliselta nimeltään Matti Lehmonen. Hänen elämäntarinansa on melkoinen. Selvitin sitä hieman vieraillessani jälleen kerran Heinävedellä Valamon luostarissa. Kerron siitä jotain tässä lyhyesti. Tämä vuonna 1912 Konneveden rantamaisemissa syntynyt rautalampilainen meni jo varsin varhain harjoittelemaan luostarielämää Laatokan Valamon luostariin. Kimmokkeen sinne menoon tämä silloin vielä luterilainen 15-16-vuotias nuori mies sai silloiselta Kotkan ortodoksisen seurakunnan kirkkoherralta, rovasti Mikael Iltonoffilta (Iltola). Niinpä hänet sitten varsin pian liitettiin Smolenskin skiitassa ortodoksiseen kirkkoon ja hän siirtyi Valamon luostariin noviisiksi. Mefodi kuvattuna Petsamon luostarissa 1939. (Kuva pappismunkki Mefodin albumista, © Valamon luostari)
ellauri109.html on line 519: In Roth’s “Exit Ghost” (2007), the last of the Zuckerman books, half a century has elapsed since the visit with Lonoff. Zuckerman, suffering from prostate cancer, has been sapped of his physical and creative vitality. Yet his greatest anxiety does not concern his impotence and incontinence, or his deteriorating short-term memory. He fears, above all, the tyranny of the biographer.
ellauri109.html on line 521: "So you’re going to redeem Lonoff’s reputation as a writer by ruining it as a man. Replace the genius of the genius with the secret of the genius.”
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 452: Lonoff, deceased and neglected, was modelled partly
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 458: Sleep, his only major novel. In Exit Ghost it is revealed that Lonoff also had an
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 485: With Walton's support, he began Call It Sleep in about 1930, completed the novel in the spring of 1934, and it was published in December 1934, to mostly good reviews. Yet the New York Herald Tribune's book critic Lewis Gannett foresaw that the book would not prove popular with its bleak depiction of New York's Lower East Side, but wrote readers would "remember it and talk about it and watch excitedly" for Roth's next book. Call It Sleep sold slowly and poorly, and after it was out-of-print, critics writing in magazines such as Commentary and Partisan Review kept praising it, and asking for it to be reprinted. After being republished in hardback in 1960 and paperback in 1964, with more than 1,000,000 copies sold, and many weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, the novel was hailed as an overlooked Depression-era masterpiece and classic novel of immigration. Today, it is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Jewish American literature. With Walton's support, he began Call It Sleep in about 1930, completed the novel in the spring of 1934, and it was published in December 1934, to mostly good reviews. Yet the New York Herald Tribune's book critic Lewis Gannett foresaw that the book would not prove popular with its bleak depiction of New York's Lower East Side, but wrote readers would "remember it and talk about it and watch excitedly" for Roth's next book. Call It Sleep sold slowly and poorly, and after it was out-of-print, critics writing in magazines such as Commentary and Partisan Review kept praising it, and asking for it to be reprinted.[ After being republished in hardback in 1960 and paperback in 1964, with more than 1,000,000 copies sold, and many weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, the novel was hailed as an overlooked Depression-era masterpiece and classic novel of immigration. Today, it is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Jewish American literature. After Muriel's death in 1990, Roth moved into a ramshackle former funeral parlor and occupied himself with revising the final volumes of his monumental work, Mercy of a Rude Stream. It has been alleged that the incestuous relationships between the protagonist, a sister, and a cousin in Mercy of a Rude Stream are based on Roth's life. Roth's own sister denied that such events occurred. Roth attributed his massive writer's block to personal problems such as depression, and to political conflicts, including his disillusion with Communism. At other times he cited his early break with Judaism and his obsessive sexual preoccupations as probable causes. Roth died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States in 1995. The character E. I. Lonoff in Philip Roth's Zuckerman novels (The Ghost Writer and Exit Ghost in this case), is a composite of Roth, Bernard Malamud and fictional elements.
xxx/ellauri215.html on line 143: In 1961 Roth visited Bernard Malamud in Oregon. Roth was still in his twenties and had just published his first book of stories, Goodbye, Columbus. Malamud was almost 50 and one of the most famous writers in America. This meeting was immortalised in one of Roth’s greatest books, The Ghost Writer. In this 1979 work, a young writer, Nathan Zuckerman, visits EI Lonoff, a first-generation immigrant modelled on Malamud, who found a new voice for Jewish-American literature. He had found a voice but, more importantly, he had a subject: “life-hunger, life-bargains, and life-terror”—a Jewish experience rooted in the traumas of east Europe and Russia.
xxx/ellauri215.html on line 149: Hölmö Hope silittää Lonoffia myötäkarvaan kuin Tiina Salmi Jönsiä, kunnes hermot pettää ja alkaa tiskit lennellä. She can glue this. Vaimo osas liimata kaiken muttei osannut tehdä artistimiestä onnellisexi. Mitä vittua.
xxx/ellauri215.html on line 152: Kekäs se tää Lonoff niikö oli? Ilmeisesti Bernard Malamud. Lonoff was, according to Morris Dickstein, “based on Malamud” (Dickstein 189) and, according to Louis Harap, “a transparent representation of Bernard Malamud” (Harap 146). Berny taisi tosiaan olla tollanen anaalinen vaimonpetturi, itki nussiessaan nubiileja coedejä.
xxx/ellauri215.html on line 159: Isaak Emmanuilovitš Babel oli venäläinen näytelmäkirjailija ja novellisti. Babel syntyi juutalaiseen perheeseen Ukrainassa Odessassa aikana, jolloin juutalaiset pakenivat joukoittain Venäjältä. Hän selvisi vuoden 1905 vainoista kristittyjen naapurien avulla mutta menetti hötäkässä isoisänsä. Tostakohan ne etukirjaimet Lonoffille tulevat. Babel käytti liikaa adjektiiveja.
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