The double, comic irony, and postmodernism in Philip Roth's 'Operation Shylock.'(Ethnic Humor) From: MELUS | Date: December 22, 1996| Author: Safer, Elaine B. | COPYRIGHT 1996 The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The humor in Philip Roth's 1993 novel 'Operation Shylock' revolves around the ironic use of doubles and a postmodernist blurring of the boundaries between fact and fiction, all related from Roth's particular Jewish perspective. The novel's doubles actually constitute a trio comprised of narrator Philip Roth, his double Moishe Pipik and the real Philip Roth, author of the novel. They represent shifting realizations of both Jewish identity and the personal self. The novel's humor also focuses o...

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