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Yes Philip Roth was morally flawed, but his work was also liberating – Sydney Morning Herald
Portnoy’s Complaint spoke to me in a way other Jewish novels did not because it dared to ventilate the pathologies tormenting the postwar Jewish psyche.
Since its release in the US and Britain last week (Australian readers will need to wait till mid June), commentators have been ransacking Blake Baileys Philip Roth: The Biography for fresh evidence of Roths predation and sleaze, his terror of, and contempt for, women. But we already know most of what there is to know because Roths told us. His fictional alter-egos among 31 books have ventriloquised about the authors toxic marriages, his aversion to commitment and condoms, his preying on young female…
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