Aug. 27th, 2009 | 01:35 pm
#336
Title: The Ghost Writer
Author: Philip Roth
Year: 1979
Publisher: Fawcett
223 pages
It was very strange to read this in Amsterdam, having picked it up in a used bookstore in the U.S. and having no notion of its contents. Roth begins with the themes that manhood begins with attending to consequences, and recognizing the fallibility of one's idols. It then veers engagingly and precipitously into Zuckerman's long fantasy about Anne Frank, raising questions such as what the Holocaust means for the generation of Jews that followed? Can you be free of history, or of fetishizing it? Though a short novel, I found it provocative and compelling.
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