Deception (the Complete Works of Philip Roth)
by H
About This Novel
"Yes, with a lover, everyday life fades away". The writer's side: The nuncio of the Holy See or the person with his nose between the seams of his underpants? The AB side of women: Sex object or Scheherazade? The AB side of the text: real chat records or fictional writing materials? Strange thoughts and impurity are the nature of writers, and every woman is Scheherazade. "Deception" is the second film in Philip Roth's "Roth Series". The entire novel unfolds in the form of a dialogue, and the central characters are an affair couple: I, "Philip", a married American writer, and a well-educated British woman trapped in a loveless and disgraceful marriage. Most of the dialogue takes place in "Philip's" studio in London. Before and after the two have sex, the dialogue is concise, powerful and full of erotic meaning. This is a veritable "audiobook" with all kinds of he-talks and she-talks that are sharp, gentle, and probing. The characters' pasts become clearer as the dialogue deepens. In terms of what is fact and what is fiction, Roth repeats his old tricks. Side A of the conversation is the real chat record of a cheating couple, and side B is the fictional writing material in the notebook. It is the writer's attempt to have a relationship with the fictional characters in the novel outside of the novel. The boundary between reality and fiction is once again broken through and blurred.
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