Roth, Philip (Vol. 9) - Roth, Philip 1933–
Roth, Philip 1933–
Roth is an American novelist and short story writer who exhibits in his fiction a brilliant satirical wit. His work explores the problems of contemporary Jewish life: assimilation, the urban versus the suburban Jew, the eastern upper-class Jew versus the midwestern middle-class Jew. Roth has a flair for reproducing the speech patterns of American dialect, whether it is the idiomatic Yiddish quality of Jewish conversation or the cliché-ridden speech of a midwestern WASP. Roth has had the good fortune to achieve both critical acclaim and the fame of a best-selling novelist. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
[These] may be the central characteristics of Roth's male/female encounters: the man is Jewish, the woman is not; the man and woman are using each other, imposing on each other fictive roles which they have created for one another; the man is doing what he thinks he...
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