Questions tagged [philip-roth]
Questions about the works of the American novelist and short story writer Philip Roth (1933–2018) or his life as a writer.
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In Sabbath's Theater, can we confirm that Mickey Sabbath is not a murderer?
Major spoilers for the plot of Sabbath's Theater follow.
Mickey Sabbath, the protagonist of Roth's novel Sabbath's Theater, is a vile human being who seems totally unable to resist his basest ...
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In Philip Roth's The Human Stain, why might Delphine Roux be considered a caricature?
Roth is commonly considered to be, at best, a masculine writer and, at worst, a misogynistic one. In The Human Stain, for example, the central relationship is between two men, one of whom is sleeping ...
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