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Volume : II, Issue : V, June - 2012 PHILIP ROTH'S DECEPTION: AN INTRIGUING SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL ARVIND VASANTRAO DESHMUKH DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The whole novel is narrated in the form of dialogues and in this regard, it is
comparable – of course, with a difference -- to Philip Roth's another novel entitled
Portnoy's Complain (1969) [at times abridged as Portnoy in the body of this paper]. As
the readers of Roth's fiction know, the whole of Portnoy is a conversation between
Alexander (Alex) Portnoy and his psychoanalyst, Dr. Spielvogel. But in Portnoy, except
for the punch-line, the psychiatrist is silent throughout the novel and only Portnoy's
voice is reigning whereas Deception is also a novel narrated through conversation with a
major difference that in Deception a number of other persons also participate in the
conversation all the time. In short, Deception is a kind of orchestra of multiple voices
and, hence, this kind of structure might prove to be confusing to some readers. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : ARVIND VASANTRAO DESHMUKH, (2012). PHILIP ROTH'S DECEPTION: AN INTRIGUING SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. V, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1018.pdf References : - Peter S. Prescott. “Talking Away Afternoons”. “Newsweek”. Vol. No. 115. Issue No. 13. March 26, 1990, p. 56.
- Ibid., p. 56.
- Philip Roth. Deception. London: Vintage, 1990, p. 09. All the quotations used in this paper from this novel are from this edition. For the sake of convenience, the title of the novel is abbreviated as D and the same is used in the body of this paper in italicized font.
- R. Z. Sheppard. “Lost in the Fun House”. “Time”. March 26, 1990, p. 43.
- Edward B. St. John. Originally published in “Library Journal”. Vol. No. 115. April 1, 1990, p. 139. Taken here from “Book Review Digest, 1990”, p. 1571.
- David Klinghoffer. Originally published in “National Review”. Vol. No. 42. August 20, 1990, p. 48. Taken here from “Book Review Digest, 1990”, p. 1571.
- Peter S. Prescott., Op. Cit., pp. 56 & 58.
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