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Title: The Fiction of Philip Roth and John Updike
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication Date: 1984
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0809311755
ISBN 13: 9780809311750
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st.
Condition: Good
Weight: 1.468 pounds

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In many ways John Updike could be termed America’s reigning WASP writer, Philip Roth the chief spokesman for the middle-class intellectual Jew. Although the two writers would seem to have little in common, George Searles’ comparison of their works leads to startlingly fresh in�sights not only into their writings but into contemporary culture as well.

Aside from biographical coincidences and a shared preference for realism, Roth and Updike also treat the same themes: ethnicity, interpersonal relationships, individual moral responsibility and guilt, and a number of secondary issues—the pernicious effects of American material�ism, the importance (and absence) of meaningful work, the diminished status of the modern clergy, and sport in con�temporary life.

Striking differences exist also: in Roth’s work social commentary is pres�ent, but the focus is on the individual, a cultural minority; Updike’s antiheroes are in the cultural mainstream. Roth writes in the first person; Updike, in the omniscient third. In Roth setting is al�most incidental; to Updike it is central. Roth’s real setting is the landscape of the mind; Updike can almost be considered a regional writer.

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George J. Searles is on the English faculty at Mohawk Valley Community College.

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