National Review, March 29th, 1993
Philip Roth's latest book is about Philip Roth, so what else is new? Only that this time, there are two of him.
The first Philip Roth, the author of Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint, is the narrator of Operation Shylock. The second Philip Roth swims into view when the author learns that there is a man in Jerusalem giving lectures and interviews under his name. Roth I flies to Israel to find out what Roth II's game might be.
Roth II's game is ostensibly political. He presents himself as an apostle of Diasporism, an ideology he devised to avert a second, Middle Eastern Holocaust by ...
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