The Ghost Writer Summary
Philip Roth

Biography EssayIn 1973, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the ... Read more

In 1974, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the book, but it al... Read more

[This entry was updated by S. Lillian Kremer (Kansas State University) from her entry in DLB 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series, pp. 202-234.]A major writer of twentieth-century ... Read more

Critical Essay by Helen Mcneil What if there had been a Jewish version of Henry James? In this marvellously controlled ironic novella [The Ghost Writer], Philip Roth has invented a bristlingly vivid J... Read more

Critical Essay by Lorna Sage Philip Roth's talent feeds off shame. Shame at bad faith, others' suffering, sexual failure (still worse, success); the shame of literature, and the distance... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Towers I had only to read [the] two opening sentences of "The Ghost Writer" to realize—with a long sigh of anticipated pleasure—that I was once aga... Read more

Critical Essay by Daphne Merkin On the evidence of his latest novel, The Ghost Writer,… Philip Roth continues to be a promising writer. Roth's first book, Goodbye, Columbus, comprised a ... Read more

Critical Essay by Judith Yaross Lee Sixty years after Joyce published his [bildungsroman known as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man], its themes sound hackneyed: a youth caught between his visio... Read more

Critical Essay by W. Clark Hendley The Ghost Writer must be initially examined from the context of the Bildungsroman because Roth has so deliberately placed it in this context. After focusing on the n... Read more