Operation Shylock: A Confession | Literary Precedents
Operation Shylock may appear unique in that Roth has manufactured two versions of himself for the principal characters, as well as concocted a broad and liberal blend of fact and fiction. Nonetheless, the method proves a variation — although a highly imaginative one — on older methods. One might argue that Chaucer's host represented the poet as narrator, and that his Canterbury-bound pilgrims combined liberal doses of fact and fiction in their prologues and tales. Closer to Roth's home, however, Marcel Proust (1871-1922) relied heavily upon his knowledge of French social...
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