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COUNTERLIVES.(The Plot Against America)(Book Review)
Nathan Zuckerman, the hero of several of Philip Roth's mid-career novels, is dogged by the notoriety of a book he wrote in 1969, "Carnovsky," which told of a Jew reacting against his parents' first-generation respectability by chasing shiksas around town and involving them in uncanonical sex acts. "Carnovsky" is a huge hit, and everyone assumes that it is autobiographical. "Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?" the Con Edison meter reader asks Zuckerman. "You are something else, man." But the interest in the book is not just prurient. "Carnovsky" is a satire on the Jewish superego, and so it is decried by Jews and denounced by rabbis, on the ground that it will ...
- Lucky Lindy, unfortunate Jews; In Philip Roth's alternative history, Charles...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor September 28, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Ron Charles Once again, Philip Roth has published a novel that you must read...those nay-sayers are just warmongering Jews. Lindbergh's first domestic initiative...When his aunt starts dating the token Jew in Lindbergh's administration, Phil...
- The Trajectory From Portnoy to Sabbath: How Philip Roth Became Known
- Newspaper article from: Forward Hillel Halkin August 23, 1996 700+ words
...Jewish Novelist' Philip Roth and the Jews By Alan Cooper State...criticizing not "the Jews, but...their settling...s later books, "a Jew seeks to identify his...after the rest of "Philip Roth and the Jews" was written. And...
- Philip Roth Novels and Stories 1959-1962.(Philip Roth Novels 1967-1972)(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch Carson, Michael J. September 1, 2005 700+ words
...org A two-volume set, Philip Roth Novels and Stories 1959-1962 and Philip Roth Novels 1967-1972 is the...of the collected works of Philip Roth. Both published by special...The Conversion of the Jews", "Defender of the Faith...
- The canonization of Philip Roth.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel Brauner, David December 22, 2007 700+ words
...American literary world, Philip Roth may now be considered...scholarly journal--Philip Roth Studies--devoted exclusively...job. The success of the Philip Roth Society, founded by Derek...was a good thing for the Jews--the last decade has...
- The heights of fiction; Philip Roth's extraordinary new novel alters history to...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) September 27, 2004 700+ words
...narrator spies on the author Philip Roth and accuses him of anti...fascist and persecutes its Jews. The Roths of Newark...gathering Holocaust. Philip Roth, real or imagined, narrates...to the Midwest, where Jews are forcibly assimilated...
- STILL (SEX) CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS: Philip Roth's newest
- Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent Sanford Pinsker September 8, 1995 700+ words
...Sabbath's Theater, By Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin, 451...manifesto titled "Imagining Jews," Philip Roth made it clear that what...thing in the world that a Jew is expected to do - by...family, by his fellow Jews, and by the larger community...
- A version of Philip Roth as the Nice Jewish-boy.(Ziff: A Life? )(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Midstream Pinsker, Sanford September 1, 2004 700+ words
...on the beezer. Enter Philip Roth, Lelchuk's friend...them, a self-hating Jew whose vicious (and unfair...famous former friend (Philip Roth). Danny Levitan is...while a thinly disguised Philip Roth appears as Arthur Ziff...
- Welcome withdrawn; New fiction.(Philip Roth's new novel)(The Plot Against...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 9, 2004 700+ words
...British Palestine, young Philip Roth was perplexed. The collector...shared its distaste for Jews, wins the Republican...being scared "ghetto" Jews. Herman, the patriarch...who wonder why German Jews, watching Hitler's...Against America. By Philip Roth.
