An Exploration of the Impact of Jewish Dissension on Philip Roth’s Fiction Writing

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10.2991/icaicte-15.2015.24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Philip Roth, the Jewish reader’s response, ventriloquism

Abstract

Philip Roth used to take advantage of his biographical details and experience to write his fiction. This essay traces the history from the reception for his Goodbye, Columbus to his settling down on this technique in Zuckerman Bound, and holds that the fierce dissention between him and the Jewish community has played a key role shaping his writing about himself, and that the friction resulted from the fact that American Jews, who narrowly escaped from the Holocaust, treasured the secure life in the US, feared that any disclosure of the dark or humiliating side of Jewish life would have led to actions against them. Roth, in so writing of himself, has thus built up a peculiar world of his fiction.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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