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Zuckerman Unbound is a 1981 novel by the American author Philip Roth. Like much of Roth's fiction, this book confronts the tenuous relationship between an author and his artistic creations. It resumes the story of Roth's fictional alter ego Nathan Zuckerman that was inaugurated in Roth's previous novel The Ghost Writer.
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The novel parallels several real events in Roth's life, including the publication of his 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint and the hoopla which surrounded Roth in the wake of that novel's fame. By analogy, in Zuckerman Unbound, Zuckerman has achieved meteoric acclaim and notoriety with "Carnovsky", a coming-of-age sex romp that differs remarkably from Zuckerman's previously Jamesian fiction. The extent to which the details of the Zuckerman character can be safely compared to those of Roth has been a subject of zealous debate among Roth's readers. Roth himself has weighed in on the debate, both in interviews and within his fiction.
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Works by Philip Roth |
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Kepesh Novels
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Roth Novels
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Short Stories
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"The Conversion of the Jews" · "Defender of the Faith" · "The Kind of Person I am" · "Epstein" · "You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings" · "Eli, the Fanatic" · "Philosophy, or Something Like That" · "The Box of Truths" · "The Fence" · "Armando and the Frauds" · "The Final Delivery of Mr. Thorn" · "The Day It Snowed" · "The Contest for Aaron Gold" · "Heard Melodies Are Sweeter" · "Expect the Vandals" · "The Love Vessel" · "The Good Girl" · "The Mistaken" · "Novotny's Pain" · "Psychoanalytic Special" · "An Actor's Life for Me" · "On the Air" · "His Mistress's Voice" · "Smart Money" · "The Ultimatum" · "Drenka's Men" · "Communist"
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Library of America
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Novels and Stories 1959–1962 · Novels 1967–1972 · Novels 1973–1977 · Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy & Epilogue 1979–1985
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