caa a22 4500 388048352 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006396 doi S0361233300006396 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006396 Rosenbloom Nancy J. In That Golden Land: The Spiritual Odyssey of Henry Roth's Call It Sleep [Elektronische Daten] [Nancy J. Rosenbloom] With these words, Henry Roth began Call It Sleep, a novel published in 1934 when its author was twenty-eight years old. Call It Sleep ranks among the most powerful novels of the 20th century, precisely because of the questions it does ask about the conflicts of immigrant life, the demands of assimilation, and the search for spiritual nourishment in the modern world. Roth locates his narrative in New York City during the peak years of mass migration from Europe between 1907 and 1914. At the center of Call It Sleep is David, a precocious and sensitive child at age six, who is already questioning his place in the universe and the meaning of God. Thus, Call It Sleep presents a narrative of how a small immigrant boy makes sense of his world, a world defined by both its physical and spiritual dimensions. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 379-399 0361-2333 23<379 1998 23 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006396 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006396 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rosenbloom Nancy J. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 379-399 0361-2333 23<379 1998 23 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge