Sabbath’s Theater (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Roth
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Morris “Mickey” Sabbath, Drenka Balich, Nikki, Roseanna, Morty Sabbath, Kathy, Norman Cowan
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Fear, Adultery, Depression, mental, Puppets or puppet plays
- Locales: New York, New Jersey, New England
Toward the end of Sabbath’s Theater, the novel’s sixty-four-year-old protagonist, having chosen and paid (with stolen money) for his burial site, orders a monument over his grave and composes an epitaph for it which reads:
Morris Sabbath
“Mickey”
Beloved Whoremonger, Seducer,
Sodomist, Abuser of Women,
Destroyer of Morals, Ensnarer of Youth,
Uxoricide,
Suicide
1929-1994
The self-portrait is accurate except for the last two lines, since Sabbath decides, at the end of Roth’s...
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