Operation Shylock: A Confession

『Operation Shylock』は、自身を想起させる作家を主人公に据えたメタフィクション。イスラエルを舞台にして模倣と本物、アイデンティティや民族的帰属の不確かさを鋭く問う寓話的長編である。

メタフィクションアイデンティティユダヤ人問題政治

作品情報

作家そっくりの主人公が、真実と虚構を揺らす。

作者自身を思わせる主人公を通して、真実と虚構、自己と他者の境界を問うメタフィクション。イスラエルを舞台に、アイデンティティの不安定さが鋭く浮かび上がる。

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

Disturbing. Enigmatic. A work of its time.
It is difficult to follow sometimes but when you crack the nut it is original and brillieant. Good service
great read
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."
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.