SOURCE: "An American Messiah: Myth in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep," in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4, Winter, 1989, pp. 673-87.
In the following essay, Altenbernd asserts that David in Roth's Call It Sleep is a messiah figure.
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