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Philip Roth | | Birth Date: |
1933 | | Place of Birth: |
Newark, New Jersey, United States | | Nationality: |
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Biography of Philip Roth
1241 words, approx. 4.1 pages
 The American author Philip Roth (born 1933) used his Jewish upbringing and his college days for the basis of many of his novels and other works. Roth used his experiences in growing up in the Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey, and his days as a col...
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Biography of Philip (Milton) Roth
21912 words, approx. 73 pages
 [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 American literature, Philip Roth has produced an impr...
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Biography of Philip Roth
12714 words, approx. 42.4 pages
 In 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 book, but it also may be an answer to critics who keep waiting for him...



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The Ghost Writer Information
388 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Ghost Writer (1979) is the first novel by Philip Roth to be narrated by Nathan Zuckerman, one of Roth's alter egos and constitutes the first book in his Zuckerman Bound trilogy and epilogue. The novel touches on themes common to many Roth works,...




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 Minnesota Monthly
Ghost writer
10/01/2003: 448 words, approx. 2 pages Spooky storyteller Michael Norman still doesn't know if he believes RUN A WEB search on Michael Norman, and sites like Weird Wisconsin and Aliensonearth.com turn up on the list of matches. Which isn't surprising, since Norman has a book of ghost stories in...
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 The Village Voice
The Ghost Writer
08/29/2007: 389 words, approx. 1 pages The Ghost Writer One for Sorrow By Christopher Barzak Bantam, 308pp., $12 Christopher Barzak's love lives of dead teenagers BY ELIZABETH HAND One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak's lovely, melancholy, off beat first novel, affectingly captures the emotional centrifuge that is adolescence,...
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 The New York Observer
Zuckerman Unsound
10/2/2007: 1,008 words, approx. 3 pages EXIT GHOSTBy Philip RothHoughton Mifflin, 304 pages, $26 What to do when the best living American novelist writes a weak book? The New Yorker solved the problem (in the Oct. 1 issue) with an extended Q&A, allowing Hermione Lee to caress the author with feather-soft...
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 AP News
Roth says farewell to fictional hero
9/27/2007: 868 words, approx. 3 pages Philip Roth says he's done with Nathan Zuckerman. But is Nathan done with Philip Roth? "Goodbye, Nathan Zuckerman," the headline from Time magazine reads. Roth, the story declares, "has exhausted the possibilities of his character," the fictional adventurer of "The Ghost Writer," "The Anatomy Lesson"...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Patrick O'donnell
2,904 words, approx. 10 pages
 Interpretative fantasies, from Clarissa and Tristram Shandy to Finnegans Wake, Pale Fire, and Gravity's Rainbow, have traditionally concerned themselves with such problems as "validity," "discursivity," and "reality" vs. "textuality," particularly with the status of fictional texts, their origins, ends, and authoritative power. Philip Roth's recent novel, The Ghost Writer, is part of this tradition: it is about origins, and the problems o...
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Critical Essay by W. Clark Hendley
2,500 words, approx. 8 pages
 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 novel as a work of fiction within a clearly defined tradition, then the critic can look to the narrative for parallels to the author's life and insights into his growth and development. In comparing the novel with its predecessors we can not only evaluate its departures from that tradition but also assess Roth's implications about t...
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Critical Essay by Judith Yaross Lee
1,403 words, approx. 5 pages
 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 vision of the truth and the sentimental, institutionalized beliefs of his elders; the artist escaping from the world of his father through flights of fancy that become fact. To redeem this adolescent fantasy from the storehouse of cultural commonplaces, a writer has just two choices. The serious approach already canonized, Philip Roth applied his comi...


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