5/31/2023 0 Comments The plot against america author![]() Why not just "An Autobiography"? Because Roth is aware that autobiographies are fundamentally suspect. Roth upped the stakes once again with The Facts (1988), subtitled A Novelist’s Autobiography. Yet while Roth and his creation share crucial biographical information–they’re both Jewish writers, born in Newark, whose early works inspired criticism from Members of the Tribe–Roth insists Zuckerman is a device, not a pseudonym. ![]() In 1979’s The Ghost Writer, Roth introduced us to Nathan Zuckerman, who’d serve as his alter ego in several subsequent novels. Roth’s letter was penned three and a half decades ago, but it was not the last time he challenged the distinction between author and character, between fiction and reality. Roth" of Trilling’s review–a two-dimensional, reified sketch–bares no more of a direct relationship to the living breathing Philip Roth than does Alexander Portnoy. Of course, Philip Roth is the author of Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), but his message is clear: the written word is a dubious medium of representation. Roth," the "character" who, in an essay, Trilling identifies as the author of Portnoy’s Complaint. In an open letter to the critic Diana Trilling published in Reading Myself and Others (1975), Philip Roth enumerates the differences between himself and "Mr. Originally published in the Jerusalem Post (September 29, 2004). My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help Donate ![]()
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