Roth, Philip
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Univ. of Chicago (M.A., 1955). His writings, noted for their irony and themes of identity, rebellion, and sexuality, deal largely with middle-class Jewish-American life. Roth gained his initial literary reputation with the short...of the 20th cent. with a mixture of comedy and savagery, have often been imaginative amalgams of autobiography and fiction, sometimes with doppelganger Nathan Zuckerman standing in for the author or with "Philip Roth" appearing as a character...diminished Nathan Zuckerman, treat a variety of end-of-life themes remembrance and regret, the last sparks of sexual desire, the ills and sorrows of the failing body, and mortality itself. See his The Facts: A Novelists Autobiography...