SOURCE: Royal, Derek Parker. “Postmodern Jewish Identity in Philip Roth's The Counterlife.” Modern Fiction Studies 48, no. 2 (summer 2002): 422-43.
In the following essay, Royal argues that The Counterlife is Roth's most pivotal novel and marks the starting point for his exploration of a postmodern Jewish identity.
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