Analysis īy creating parallels between Zuckerman's life as a novelist (with the novel Carnovsky a stand-in for his Portnoy's Complaint) and his own, Roth expressed his interest in the relationship between an author and his work. The book explores Zuckerman's life as an older man, returning to New York City after an extended period of seclusion in the Berkshires. Įxit Ghost (2007) is the ninth book in the Zuckerman series, and is the last Zuckerman novel. Though wildly successful, the novel has brought to Zuckerman unwanted attention from both readers and his family, who object to their portrayal in his work. In Zuckerman Unbound (1981), he has become established as a novelist and must deal with the fall-out from his ribald comedic novel Carnovsky. In later books, Roth uses Zuckerman as a protagonist, starting with the 1979 novel The Ghost Writer, where he is a writing apprentice on a pilgrimage to cull the wisdom of the reclusive author E. Discrepancies (including date of birth, details of his upbringing, and personal background) exist between the characters, leading most to consider this an early version, and not necessarily the Zuckerman around whom subsequent novels would revolve.

Roth first created a character named Nathan Zuckerman in the novel My Life as a Man (1974), where he is the 'product' of another fictional Roth figure, the writer Peter Tarnopol (making Zuckerman, in his original form, an 'alter-alter-ego').

OL74674W Page_number_confidence 93.59 Pages 314 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.13 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210520174532 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 349 Scandate 20210515221215 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780224081733 Tts_version 4.Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character created by the writer Philip Roth, who uses him as his protagonist and narrator, a type of alter ego, in many of his novels. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:01:29 Boxid IA40119013 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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