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Book Description: On its original publication in 1982 this book was the first full length study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth century writer. As well as setting the novelist s work in the context of Jewish American writing (and Jewish American families) and twentieth century American politics, the book explores the characteristic paradoxes in Roth: self disgust and self consciousness, restraint and letting go, nausea and appetite, energy and frustration, stylishness and vulgarity, surrealism and the mundane. Roth is a highly literary and referential character and an assessment is made of the conflicting influnces on his work of Kafka, Checkov, Gogol, Henry James, Melville and Henry Youngman, a Jewish nightclub and Vaudeville comic. In addition a close examination of his anxious, revolting, garrulous heroes, their mothers, their marriages, their shrinks, and their shiksas is undertaken and a deep seriousness is discovered, co existing with Roth s comic brashness and bravura.

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