Operation Shylock (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Roth
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Novel of ideas
- Time of Work: 1988
- Setting: Jerusalem
- Genres: Long fiction, Problem novel
- Subjects: Mistaken or secret identity, 1980’s, Novelists, Surgery or surgeons, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Espionage or spies, 1990’s, Holocaust, Jewish, Israel or Israelis, Comedy, Jews and Gentiles, Split personalities, Jerusalem, Jewish-Arab relations, Palestinian Arabs, Secularism, Zionism
- Locales: New York, London, England, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Jordan
Characters Discussed
Philip Roth, the narrator, a writer in his mid-fifties. Following knee surgery, Roth had a mental breakdown, possibly caused by the drug Halcion, which caused him to be delusional. At first, he wonders whether the events in the story he tells are in fact delusions. He relates the story as a confession and says that he has changed the names of characters to protect their identities. In January of 1988, he discovers that someone is impersonating him. The impersonator is attending the trial, in Jerusalem, of John Demjanjuk and is making public appearances and...
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See Also:
Philip Roth (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Philip Roth (Short Fiction)Philip Roth (Long Fiction)Philip Roth (Identities and Issues)Philip Roth (Sixties in America)
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