Done with the novel

Veteran Philip Roth has declared that he is finished with the novel.

Nemesis will be his last one.

Roth said the following in defense of his decision:

I don’t want to read any more of it, write any more of it, and I don’t even want to talk about it anymore. I have dedicated my life to the novel: I have studied it, I have taught it, I have written it and I have read it. To the exclusion of almost everything else. It’s enough. I no longer feel this dedication to write what I have experienced my whole life. The idea of struggling once more with writing is unbearable to me.

Many say that Roth's break-up, as it were, with the novel, is a sign of his disappointment at never winning the Nobel.