Deception (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Roth
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: London and Manhattan
- Principal Characters: Philip, His Unnamed Mistress
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Cancer, Anti-Semitism
- Locales: Manhattan, NY, London, England
Few novelists have been as thoroughly identified with their fictional alter egos as Philip Roth has been with his; even fewer have spent so much time and energy objecting to their readers’ tendency to make such identifications. For more than twenty years, in essays and interviews by turns witty and testy, eloquent and blunt, Roth has tried to convince his readers and critics of the importance of acknowledging the fundamental distinction between facts and fictions, imagined and genuine autobiographies, his characters and his own character. Since the late 1970’s, the complexities of...
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