The Human Stain (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Roth
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1998-1999
- Setting: The Berkshires in western Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Coleman Silk, Nathan Zuckerman, Faunia Farley, Lester Farley, Delphine Roux, Steena Palsson, Lisa Silk, Mark Silk, Ernestine
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Racism, Twentieth century, Education or educators, Mistaken or secret identity, College life, Identity, Colleges or universities, 1990’s, Massachusetts
- Locales: Berkshires, MA
With its concluding phrase, “atop an arcadian mountain in America,” The Human Stain echoes the title of American Pastoral, the 1997 novel that began what has turned out to be a brilliant trilogy covering life in the United States during the last half of the twentieth century. American Pastoral examines the consequences of 1960’s radicalism for an ostensibly model American family, and I Married a Communist (1998) tells the story of a man undone by the political hysteria of the 1950’s. The final volume in Philip Roth’s trilogy, The Human Stain,...
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