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Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books - The Making of a Storyworld (Hardcover, New)
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Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books - The Making of a Storyworld (Hardcover, New)
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Philip Roth's standing on the literary scene is undisputed. The
recipient of innumerable literary awards, the Jewish American
author has reached past the precincts of his Newark's Weequahic
neighborhood to become one of the most significant American
novelists of the late twentieth century, an unrivalled master of
the art of fiction. His literary output spanning more than 50 years
and more than thirty books has been astounding both in terms of
quantity and quality. Roth's place among the classics has been
established by a host of critical studies presenting Roth's work
from a myriad of thematic perspectives. Critical literature on Roth
has become a minor industry of sorts and the interested reader may
find a number of excellent general book-length treatments of his
oeuvre. This book traces Zuckerman's fictional birth in My Life as
a Man and The Ghost Writer, his growth through Zuckerman Unbound,
The Anatomy Lesson, The Prague Orgy, The Counterlife, The Facts,
his development in American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The
Human Stain and his death in Exit Ghost, to explore how Roth has
been progressively creating and refining this mask and his voice as
a means to come to terms with his own biography, his history, and
his own self as a writer. All the defining features of Roth's
poetics-masking practices, ventriloquism, meta-fictional focus,
cultural significance-are visible in the creation of Zuckerman as
narrator. This study keeps up the ongoing reflection in Roth's
scholarly literature on the foundational relationship between facts
and fictions demonstrating how Zuckerman amplifies and perfects the
typically Rothian tendency to draw materials for his fictional
writing from his own life and reveals Roth's ambition to create a
monument out of a specific and well individualized identity: the
writer steeped in American history. As Roth's most cherished mask,
Nathan Zuckerman opens for the reader interested in the Jewish
American author a perfect window on the crucial issue of authorship
and on the range of Roth's thematic preoccupations.In proposing to
view The Ghost Writer as a narrative beginning, The Counterlife as
a middle and Exit Ghost as an end, the book addresses the stakes at
play in reading across multiple narratives directly: how is
Zuckerman's identity shaped? How does narrative technique interact
with biographical data? How do readers make (progressive) sense of
Zuckerman and how do they cope with inconsistencies? What kind of
coherence can be ascribed to Zuckerman in spite of the gaps his
long narrative presents? What if anything is specifically "Jewish"
about the creation of Zuckerman as narrator of numerous books? What
are the literary functions, the formal and narratological
underpinnings and the psychological needs Zuckerman activates and
reveals?The book's groundbreaking contribution consists in a unique
focus on the inner, that is to say, narratological logic of the
fictional world presided over by Nathan Zuckerman and in the
contextual attention to how form in its panoply of aspects triggers
reader responses and activities. Masiero illuminates Roth's art of
fiction through the detailed analysis of Roth's ambitious dream of
creating a complete narrative microcosm.This book is important for
the general reader interested in contemporary American fiction, as
well as for teachers of American literature and Jewish studies, for
graduate students and advanced undergraduates, and, of course for
Roth scholars and literary theorists.
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