Secret identities: ; Philip Roth asks, 'What can we know about each other ?'

Charleston Gazette | May 28, 2000| | Copyright

For the Sunday Gazette-Mail

Though it is set during the soap-opera summer of 1998, "The Human Stain" is not about Monica's famous dress, although that woman, Miss Lewinsky, does represent much of what's wrong with America: "She's part of that dopey culture," one of Philip Roth's characters says, "yap, yap, yap. Part of this generation that is proud of its shallowness." Roth has spent his long, distinguished career rebelling against shallowness, and "The Human Stain" contains his most furious, funniest, yet also most merciful insights into the bottomless well of deceit and hypocrisy that for ...

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