false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220481334m/12881.jpg 12881 12 Philip Roth's very literary novels, most famously <i>Portnoy's Complaint</i>, have always had the feel of confessional autobiography. <i>Operation Shylock</i> boasts not only a character named Philip Roth, a Jewish-American novelist, but an impostor who is claiming to be him. Roth's impostor causes a furor in Israel by advocating "Diasporism," the polar opposite of Zionism, encouraging Israelis to return home to eastern Europe. In Israel the real Roth attends the trial of a former Nazi, and also observes at a West Bank military court dealing harshly with young Palestinians. Through stark counterpoint between distorted doubles, along with his trademark bawdy humor, Roth comically explores the tensions of his identity as a writer, as a Jew, and as a human being. <i>Operation Shylock</i> won the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1994. 3082517 1993 Operation Shylock total:577|5:156|4:213|3:148|2:36|1:24| 577 2172 889 64 4 37 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 06:26:23 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 15:57:08 -0800 2008
Philip Roth: Well, well, well… so you finally stumbled upon something in my oft-maligned oeuvre that appealed to your low-brow sensibility?

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Some companion-reading to go along with Saramago's The Double.

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