Zuckerman Unbound (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Roth
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Comic realism
- Time of Work: 1969
- Setting: New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Authors or writers, New York City, Art or artists, Jews or Jewish life, Creative process, Ethics, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Nathan Zuckerman, an American Jewish novelist who has to cope with fame following the publication of his first successful novel. The novel, titled Carnovsky, is based enough on Nathan’s own experience that his family and friends become angry at his depiction of Jews in what they see as a peep-show atmosphere of perversion. The book has made Nathan both rich and famous, but he still struggles with the conflicts that result from the book’s relationship to life, for he is taken to be the model of his lecherous protagonist Carnovsky, and his wife and...
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