Philip Roth: Countertexts, Counterlives »

Shostak (American literature and film, College of Wooster) argues that contemporary American writer Roth does not privilege any perspective over another or work various viewpoints toward a synthesis, rather his countertexts simply talk to one another. She considers Roth and counter-Roth anatomies of desire, the member of the tribe, impersonation and the diaspora Jew, fictions of self-exposure, inventing the real, and subject in and into history. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR