Wordly Wise Book 8 Lesson 3 Answer Key
Doris Joo
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"Nothing is impossible," declares Mordecai Lippman, the fanatical Zionist of the novel, who, like the phoenix, practically invents himself out of ashes and heat. "All the Jew must decide is what he wants - then he can act and achieve it." But first of all you must become a Jew, a root Jew, not merely a branch Jew like some bank in the suburbs. In novel after novel, Roth has asked what Jews want with somewhat the same irritated bewilderment we associate with Freud's question: "What do women want?" In "The Counterlife," the query has become more riddling, more radical and, despite the antic flipflops of the plot, more serious yet no less witty for all that: can a Jew, if he wishes - if he wants -change into a Jew? And in what direction should he go to do that? And why should the quiet course of a comfortable life be shattered by such questions, which were always there to be put, but were answered by not being asked? And is not the anti-Semitism of a Jew the refusal of a Jew to be one?
These are a few of the questions Philip Roth's latest novel considers, turning them round like meat on a spit. With respect to his own past as an author, there are many questions - the hedges, qualifications, objections entertained by critics - to which it gives a resounding answer. "The Counterlife," it seems to me, constitutes a fulfillment of tendencies, a successful integration of themes, and the final working through of obsessions that have previously troubled if not marred his work. I hope it felt, as Roth wrote it, like a triumph, because that is certainly how it reads to me. THE style is a triumph too. It is no longer a style at war with itself, as Roth's sometimes used to be, its cleverness undercutting its own emotions, its satire thinning a subject already sliced. Its combativeness is no longer pointed at the reader, the critic, the family or some other ancient adversary. The world of "The Counterlife" is made of intelligent, argumentative, witty, observant words. They are words woven now, after the practice of many years, into a rich, muscular, culturally complex style that even in purely narrative moments seems to come not from the end of a pen but through the flow of the voice, thus from a mouth - the organ that Zuckerman's brother, a dentist, seductively describes, for the young assistant he is about to hire, as genital. It is surely the opening through which, to continue life, the world is received. It is also, quite as surely, the loudspeaker of the soul. And in "The Counterlife" a lot of those loudspeakers are on. Full blast.
The book comes to us wrapped in more than its dust jacket. It continues and seems to conclude a series of affairs, ambitions and other anxieties taken from the life of Nathan Zuckerman; a life whose telling began before its tolling in "The Ghost Writer" of 1979, and which, after two more novels, "Zuckerman Unbound" in 1981, then "The Anatomy Lesson" in 1983, was advertised as ending in 1985 with the addition of a novella, "The Prague Orgy," so that the entire collection could be called "Zuckerman Bound," a volume you were encouraged to buy in the belief that at last you had hold of the whole thing. So our present text is legitimately preceded, if not surrounded, by the four books that carry the Zuckerman name to this point.
However, Roth would now have us believe that Nathan Zuckerman is the invention of Peter Tarnopol, the professor and novelist of "My Life as a Man." Tarnopol endeavors to come to some understanding of himself by composing a series of fictions that are then topped off by the real thing, Tarnopol's autobiography (which we should no more believe is true of Tarnopol than "My Life as a Man" is true of Roth). And this conjunction of fact with fancy presumably allows us to estimate the alterations imagination makes to any fictionalized biography. In a Roth novel, it is not unusual for characters to cross from one text to another as though they were crossing a street. Dr. Spielvogel, the psychiatrist of "My Life as a Man," is also the analytic ear listening to Portnoy's complaint.
Nathan Zuckerman is the author of a notoriously dirty book, an alleged libel of the Jews, "Carnovsky," which has made him both rich and reviled, just as "Portnoy's Complaint" made Philip Roth well known, well off and the target of slings. So if we follow this tangle from head to tail, we shall discover that Roth has created a character, Peter Tarnopol, who has in turn invented Nathan Zuckerman, who has, for his part, written the same book Roth has (since "Carnovsky" equals "Portnoy"). This ring of real and fictive authors puts us at least a touch back, if not smack back at the beginning. It is consequently not stretching the facts but admitting them to say that "The Counterlife" is both thematically and structurally connected to the general body of Philip Roth's work.
Nor is this all. One of Philip Roth's preoccupations as a writer has been the relation between "his life as a man" and "his life as a character"; between life in the world and life in his fictions; between the fictions Roth reads and the fictions Roth writes. Both the life and the work of a writer like Kafka are as real and resounding to Philip Roth the writer as any other element of his material. When Zuckerman imagines that a young woman he has just met and immediately fancies is not the ghostly author of "The Diary of Anne Frank," but Frank herself (a survivor as well as a victim of the camps, who has continued to play dead to enhance the influence of her book), we are not dealing simply with the perhaps absurd obsession of a character in a fiction.
The Zuckerman books are full of warnings to their readers about the differences, subtle sometimes, between real life and art: "They [ those affected by the sex-mad Carnovsky ] had mistaken impersonation for confession and were calling out to a character who lived in a book." Zuckerman's anguish over this error is expressed too eloquently and too often to be merely his. But now we have crossed the line to lay the attitude of a fictional figure at its author's feet.
If "the artist descends within himself," in those words of Conrad Zuckerman approvingly quotes, "and in that lonely region of stress and strife . . . finds the terms of his appeal," then Roth does not go down so deeply that he loses sight of the salient facts of his life. His personal problems, particularly successes and sufferings, continue to preoccupy him. What Conrad clearly expected the artist to do was to descend beyond those particularities to a place where pride and anxiety and stamina and weakness could find new terms for their expression - locate the general, not the local, source of their appeal. DESPITE the author's disclaimers, the many parallels between the Zuckerman saga and the Philip Roth story invite the confusion. Part of "The Anatomy Lesson," for instance, is a vengeful reply to a particularly stinging critical piece on Roth by Irving Howe. The identity of Howe is hidden like a lamppost in the living room. Another section is concerned to rebut the feminists. A reader ignorant of Portnoy's habits, unfamiliar with the critical climate, a reader for whom the author's name is merely that - short, an off rhyme with wrath - would be blessed by such ignorance, and possibly able to see the book, because this new work, like each of the others, is not only wrapped in Zuckerman and Tarnopol, it is also wrapped in Roth.
If you are a black writer, professional blacks (that is, people whose business is being black and little else) will require blackness of you, although each critic may favor a different shade; and if you are a woman, the feminists will make analogous demands, and hunt through every page looking for the incriminating pronoun and other signs you have succumbed to something macho; and if you are a Jewish writer it will be the same, though the quarreling groups will perhaps be more numerous and have been at it longer. Philip Roth has been praised by this group and damned by that, and charged and vindicated and hailed and cursed by readers whose real interests were as far from literature as fanaticism will always take you - to the opposite pole. It is a pole Roth stirs them up with.
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