PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Operation Shylock: A Confession
Operation Shylock is a metafictional novel with a protagonist who resembles the author himself. Set in Israel, it incisively questions imitation and authenticity, identity, and the instability of Jewish belonging.
Work Information
A writer-like protagonist unsettles the boundary between truth and fiction.
Through a protagonist who resembles the author, the novel asks where truth ends and fiction begins, and where the self ends and the other starts. Set in Israel, it brings the instability of identity into sharp focus.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- 1998-01-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780671703769
- ISBN-10
- 0671703765
- Price
- 2576 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
A man whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe is at the center of this meditation on identity
Reviews
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Disturbing. Enigmatic. A work of its time.
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It is difficult to follow sometimes but when you crack the nut it is original and brillieant. Good service
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great read
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It's sometimes hard to read his prose but it's almost always worth the effort.It would be interesting to hear the reaction with in Israel's right wing to the novel's argument on the need for Zionism to reverse itself because its historical justification is now. outmoded. Also, on the generally bogus role of religion for other than the fearful and desperate- "There was also some question as to whether he was sane, or was entering that stage of chronic ailing known as the Hysterical Search for the Miraculous Cure.............If so, beware, astrology lies just around the corner. Worse, Christianity. Yield to the hunger for medical magic and you will be carried to the ultimate limit of human foolishness, to the most preposterous of all the great pipe dreams devised by ailing mankind, to the Gospels, to the pillow of our leading dolorologist, the voodoo healer Dr. Jesus Christ."
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Philip Roth is undoubtedly an acquired taste, but this book lives up to all the others. He's a phenomenal author that challenges you to think. I am very pleased with the condition of this book. It was clean, crisp, and couldn't be in any better shape yae I gone out and purchased it in person.