The Ghost Writer (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Roth
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Comic realism
- Time of Work: 1956
- Setting: The home of E. I. Lonoff, in the Berkshires
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Authors or writers, Art or artists, New England, Jews or Jewish life, Creative process, Ethics, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: Berkshires, MA
Characters Discussed
Nathan Zuckerman, an established Jewish novelist. He recalls a visit, twenty years earlier, to the home of a famous older writer. At the age of twenty-three, Zuckerman was serious about his work and longed for the kind of reclusive life devoted to his craft that his mentor E. I. Lonoff was leading in the Berkshires. As is characteristic of people in his chosen profession, Zuckerman lives more in a life of fantasy than in reality. He quarreled with his own father, who objected to a story by Zuckerman that was not flattering to Jews, and he goes to visit...
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