Philip Roth"Philip Roth insinuated that his connections to the Mossad were not necessarily a figment of the imagination."
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Roth wrote about Jewish male identity and about himself as a Jewish male.
Roth and BloomRoth's second wife, Claire Bloom, accused Roth of feeling 'a deep and irrepressible rage' toward women.
Bloom accused Roth of preventing her daughter, by a previous marriage, from visiting their home.
According to Bloom, Roth tried to seduce one of that teenage daughter's friends.
A critic once wrote: 'There are usually two sorts of women in Roth's heroes' lives:
A critic once wrote: 'There are usually two sorts of women in Roth's heroes' lives:
'Bitchy, castrating women.
'And doting sexual slaves.'
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In Roth's 1995 novel Sabbath's Theatre, the hero pleasures himself sexually over his dead girlfriend's grave.
Roth's first wife, Margaret Martinson Williams, died in a car crash in 1968.
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In Roth's 1995 novel Sabbath's Theatre, the hero pleasures himself sexually over his dead girlfriend's grave.
Roth's first wife, Margaret Martinson Williams, died in a car crash in 1968.
Roth said of Margaret: 'You're dead and I didn’t have to do it (kill her).'
Roth, in The Plot Against America, wrote about a Nazi-run USA.
Roth feared anti-semitism.
In his novel Operation Shylock, Roth has two characters - Roth I and Roth II.
Roth I is the Jewish-American writer, with links to Mossad.
Roth I is the Jewish-American writer, with links to Mossad.
Roth I meets Roth II, a Jewish-American shnorrer (poor Jew).
Roth II promotes Diasporism.
"Thus all Israelis of Ashkenazi origin are forthwith to be encouraged to return to their ancestral homes in Europe, the better to fulfil their Diasporist destinies.
"In this way, a greatly reduced Jewish settlement will cease to be a belligerent presence in Palestine."
Jenny Turner reviews 'Operation Shylock' by Philip Roth
"According to Diasporism, the nation-state of Israel is at best a historically expedient construct...
"It has long outgrown its usefulness, at worst a foolish misinterpretation of what it really means to be a Jew and living in the world.
"It has long outgrown its usefulness, at worst a foolish misinterpretation of what it really means to be a Jew and living in the world.
"In this way, a greatly reduced Jewish settlement will cease to be a belligerent presence in Palestine."
Jenny Turner reviews 'Operation Shylock' by Philip Roth
Roth's Newark, in 1967.
