History Creator / PhilipRoth

His works largely revolve around a number of recurring themes, including family, sex, America, the Jewish experience, and above all Philip Roth. Everything he writes invariably features some kind of AuthorAvatar, whether a standalone character (most famously Alexander Portnoy), his recurring character Nathan Zuckerman, or even Roth himself (in which case the degree of autobiographical honesty ranges from "lots" to "almost none" to "not telling"). He always portrays "himself" as a cynical, neurotic intellectual, tinged with misogyny and self-loathing; generally the older the character is, the more pronounced his flaws.

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His works largely revolve around a number of recurring themes, including family, sex, America, the Jewish experience, and above all Philip Roth. Everything he writes invariably features some kind of AuthorAvatar, be it a standalone character (most famously Alexander Portnoy), his recurring character Nathan Zuckerman, or even Roth himself (in which case the degree of autobiographical honesty ranges from "lots" to "almost none" to "not telling"). He always portrays "himself" as a cynical, neurotic intellectual, tinged with misogyny and self-loathing; generally the older the character is, the more pronounced his flaws.

His works largely revolve around a number of recurring themes: family, sex, America, the Jewish experience, and above all Philip Roth. Everything he writes invariably features some kind of AuthorAvatar, be it a standalone character (most famously Alexander Portnoy), his recurring character Nathan Zuckerman, or even Roth himself (in which case the degree of autobiographical honesty ranges from "lots" to "almost none" to "not telling"). He always portrays "himself" as a cynical, neurotic intellectual, tinged with misogyny and self-loathing; generally the older the character is, the more pronounced his flaws.

->''"Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time."''

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning author of such acclaimed novels as ''Literature/PortnoysComplaint'', ''The Human Stain'', ''Literature/AmericanPastoral'', ''Literature/ThePlotAgainstAmerica'' and the novella ''Literature/GoodbyeColumbus''.

His works largely revolve around several recurring themes - family, sex, America, the Jewish experience, and above all Philip Roth. Everything he writes invariably features some kind of AuthorAvatar, be it a standalone character (most famously Alexander Portnoy), his recurring character Nathan Zuckerman, or even Roth himself (in which case the degree of autobiographical honesty ranges from "lots" to "almost none" to "not telling"). He always portrays "himself" as a cynical, neurotic intellectual, tinged with misogyny and self-loathing; generally the older the character is, the more pronounced his flaws.

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Philip Milton Roth (born 1933) is the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning author of such acclaimed novels as ''Literature/PortnoysComplaint'', ''The Human Stain'', ''Literature/AmericanPastoral'', ''Literature/ThePlotAgainstAmerica'' and the novella ''Literature/GoodbyeColumbus''.

Roth is known for his distinctive writing style, which is at once analytical, empassioned, confessional, foul-mouthed and extremely verbose.

Philip Roth is the Pulitzer-winning author of such acclaimed novels as ''Literature/PortnoysComplaint'', ''The Human Stain'', ''Literature/AmericanPastoral'', ''Literature/ThePlotAgainstAmerica'' and the novella ''Literature/GoodbyeColumbus''.

Philip Roth is the Pulitzer-winning author of such acclaimed novels as ''[[Literature/PortnoysComplaint Portnoy's Complaint]]'', ''The Human Stain'', ''Literature/AmericanPastoral'', ''ThePlotAgainstAmerica'' and the novella ''Literature/GoodbyeColumbus''.

Philip Roth is the Pulitzer-winning author of such acclaimed novels as ''[[Literature/PortnoysComplaint Portnoy's Complaint]]'', ''The Human Stain'', ''Literature/AmericanPastoral'', ''ThePlotAgainstAmerica'' and the novella ''GoodbyeColumbus''.

Philip Roth is the Pulitzer-winning author of such acclaimed novels as ''Portnoy's Complaint'', ''The Human Stain'', ''Literature/AmericanPastoral'', ''ThePlotAgainstAmerica'' and the novella ''GoodbyeColumbus''.