The Anatomy Lesson
novel by Roth
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American literature
- In American literature: Realism and metafiction
…especially The Ghost Writer (1979), The Anatomy Lesson (1983), and, above all, The Counterlife (1987). Like many of his later works, from My Life as a Man (1974) to Operation Shylock (1993), The Counterlife plays ingeniously on the relationship between autobiography and fiction. His best later work was his bitter,…
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discussed in biography
- In Philip Roth
…novels, Zuckerman Unbound (1981) and The Anatomy Lesson (1983), trace his writer-protagonist’s subsequent life and career and constitute the Zuckerman trilogy. These three works were republished together with the novella The Prague Orgy (film 2019) under the title Zuckerman Bound (1985). After a fourth Zuckerman novel, The Counterlife (1986), Roth…
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