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	Amazon.com: Operation Shylock : A Confession (Vintage International): Books: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Operation Shylock boasts not only a character named Philip Roth, a Jewish-American novelist, but an impostor who is claiming to be him.
		"Operation Shylock" stands as an important text, especially considering the fact that Roth is one of the best living writers today.
		Philip Roth's novel "Operation Shylock" presents a two-sided controversial discussion about the justification of the existence of the state of Israel.
	www.amazon.com /Operation-Shylock-Confession-Vintage-International/dp/0679750290 (1638 words)

	Sanitizing 'Merchant': Pacino Plays Shylock Like a Grouchy Tevya
		A Shylock that is less like Shakespeare's Jew than a heroically suffering Everyman, a Brechtian Mother Courage figure of endurance, persisting however put upon.
		Which identified Shylock's flaws as specifically Jewish flaws, which exploited venomous racial and religious stereotypes that deepened rather than ameliorated the anti-Semitism that could be dismissed as cartoonish caricature in Marlowe's Jew of Malta.
		While Shylock (in the actual play, anyway) is fulfilling the true mercenary purpose and destiny of Jews in his greed.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /1204/rosenbaum_shylock.php3?printer_friendly (2741 words)

	Amazon.ca: Operation Shylock: a Confession: Books: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Operation Shylock boasts not only a character named Philip Roth, a Jewish-American novelist, but an impostor who is claiming to be him.
		Roth is the undefeated (probably undefeatable) champion of literary experimentation, and Operation Shylock is perhaps his most successful, most outrageous experiment to date.
		I would award Shylock five stars, if it were not for the fact that I simply can't (and never have been able to) get used to his hyperbolic style--all the ranting and raving and melodrama can occasionally be tiresome.
	www.amazon.ca /Operation-Shylock-Confession-Philip-Roth/dp/0679750290 (1636 words)

	Operation Shylock: A Confession Study Guide by Philip Roth
		Operation Shylock: A Confession Study Guide by Philip Roth
		Operation Shylock: A Confession Short Guide consists of approx.
		Operation Shylock: A Confession from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults.
	www.bookrags.com /shortguide-operation-shylock (105 words)

	"Double Vision - Forward.com"
		To drive home his central argument — that the key to understanding the character of Shylock from Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” is to view him as the voice of the playwright himself — he, too, revives his subject, but not as mere listener.
		Part of the play’s lasting ambiguity, Gross argues, is that Shylock is sentenced in the play’s penultimate act and we never hear from him again.
		In the novel’s “wild and oblique mirrors,” Gross hears “the nature of Shylock’s voice, its disturbing inventiveness, its gleeful and self-wounding powers of rage… the very cadences of Shylock’s speeches.” The novel, for Gross, is the kind of work that Shakespeare might have written had he had the postmodern tools of the late 20th-century author.
	www.forward.com /articles/double-vision (746 words)

	Operation Shylock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Shylock: A Confession (ISBN 0-671-70376-5) is novelist Philip Roth's 19th book and was published in 1993.
		Though this topic is thoroughly explored in Roth's series of Zuckerman novels, Operation Shylock even more radically attacks the distinction between life and art by making a fairly mimetic version of the author the protagonist of an obviously invented (though plausible) story.
		Yet despite this effort, separating the real from the fictional in Operation Shylock is not wholly impossible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Shylock (262 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Will the Real Roth Stand Up?
		Operation Shylock: A Confession plays a steady game of doubled identities and Roth the author supports the truth of the volume "out of uniform," so to speak, in interviews where he claims again that the whole thing is true.
		Not until the reader gets to the disclaimer at the end of the book--a perfunctory "Note to the Reader"--do we know for sure that: "This book is a work of fiction." But after 400 pages of uprooting plot twists, even this holds little credence.
		Operation Shylock humor never fails and the narrative bursts with irony.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=236430 (760 words)

	Powell's Books - Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth
		In Operation Shylock, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth.
		In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997).
		He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0679750290 (415 words)

	if you want me, i'll be waiting on the PARK BENCH;;_________ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The book is written as a non-fictional account of an event in the author's life, so realistic that there's a disclaimer on the last page.
		"Operation Shylock" finds Roth once again challenging the reader's perceptions about fiction and non-fiction.
		If you haven't read him before, and the basic plot interests you, this may be a good place to start.
	au_moment.tripod.com /bookblog/003.html (388 words)

	JBooks.com - Interviews and Profiles: Exodus and Aliyah
		Operation Shylock (l993) and the “Judea” section of
		Here, a comparison between Philip Roth and Saul Bellow can be instructive: Roth’s Operation Shylock not only asks us to believe that a character named Philip Roth worked with/for the Israeli secret service but also that his extraordinary efforts literally saved Israel from annihilation.
		The novel, with all its slipping in and out of autobiography, fell awkwardly between two stools: it was neither objectively “true” nor persuasively “false.” Like about half of Roth’s novels, Operation Shylock quickly landed in the “remaindered” pile, where it languished and was soon pulped.
	www.jbooks.com /interviews/index/IP_Pinsker_Israel.htm (2020 words)

	In Praise of Diasporism
		At the beginning of Philip Roth's raucous 1993 novel Operation Shylock, the narrator--a novelist named Philip Roth--receives a call from a friend in Israel, the novelist and Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld.
		Although Roth's impersonator in Operation Shylock is depicted as a crackpot, Roth--who mischievously subtitles the novel "a confession"--cannot quite shake the shadow of his doppelganger.
		Soon after landing in Israel, in pursuit of the man who has stolen his identity, he begins impersonating his impersonator, with manic brilliance: "Better to be marginal neurotics, anxious assimilationists, and everything else the Zionists despise, better to lose the state than to lose your moral being by unleashing a nuclear war.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20040426/shatz (650 words)

	TIME.com: A Complaint: Double Vision -- Mar. 8, 1993 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But Roth has argued all along, most elaborately and entertainingly in The Counterlife (1987), what ought to be -- and for some peculiar reason isn't -- a simple point: that fiction and reality are different.
		So, naturally, the central character and narrator of his new novel, Operation Shylock, appears under the name Philip Roth.
		Operation Shylock is not at all the desiccated exercise its premise -- doppelgangers, Identity vs. the True Self -- might suggest.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,977881,00.html (694 words)

	David Isaacson's Book Reviews - WMU Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Operation Shylock, published in 1993 by Simon and Schuster, these two subjects - his own slippery personal identity and the always dicey identity of the Jewish people - get tangled up again.
		In Operation Shylock Roth tries some new twists on this game of creating a doppelganger.
		The main character is called Philip Roth, who, in every way that I can tell, is a dead ringer for the real Philip Roth.
	www.wmich.edu /library/bookreviews/1999/roth-operation.php (600 words)

	Philip Roth's 'Operation Shylock' Review by David Louis Edelman
		The city that's at the heart of the nation of paradox itself, Israel.
		It's also the city chosen as the setting of Philip Roth's latest exercise in self-analysis, Operation Shylock.
		It's a statement made by the late Bernard Malamud: "If you ever forget you're a Jew, a gentile will remind you." In other words, Jews will always be Jews before they are anything else — especially in Israel.
	www.davidlouisedelman.com /reviews/roth.cfm (694 words)

	TomFolio.com: Operation Shylock by Roth
		Suspenseful, hilarious, hugely impassioned, pulsing with intelligence and narrative energy, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession.
		Operation Shylock is Philip Roth's twentieth published book - and perhaps his very best.
		Roth, Philip Operation Shylock: A Confession Publisher: S&S NY 1993.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Roth&an=Philip_Roth&title=Operation_Shylock (1623 words)

	Operation Shylock: A Confession (Unabridged) - Audio Book Spot.com
		In Operation Shylock, master novelist Philip Roth confronts his double, an impostor whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews back to Europe from Israel.
		The "fake" Philip Roth becomes a monstrous nemesis to the "real" Philip Roth, who must take a frightening and mysterious journey through the volatile Middle East.
		Suspenseful, hilarious, and impassioned, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a political thriller, and a confession, pulsing with intelligence and intense narrative energy.
	www.audiobookspot.com /audio_book/12.html (123 words)

	Amazon.com: Operation Shylock: a confession: Books: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Convinced that Israel will be destroyed by the Arab nations, the pretender has assumed Roth's identity in order to publicize his scheme to establish a new diaspora that will lead Jews out of Israel and back to their pre-Holocaust cultural roots in Europe.
		Roth also refers to the trial of Shakespeare's Shylock, whose name the narrator gives to what he concludes is an Israeli intelligence operation that has manipulated the series of bizarre experiences in which he finds himself.
		Other actual figures represented in the story include Aharon Appelfeld (whose interview with the author is reprinted from the original in the New York Times Book Review), Jonathan Pollard (accused of spying for Israel) and Leon Klinghoffer (the victim of the Achille Lauro highjacking).
	www.amazon.com /Operation-Shylock-confession-Philip-Roth/dp/0671703765 (781 words)

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	Nextbook: Operation Shylock
		In the climactic trial scene, says The late Dr. Goddard, it is Portia who fails Shylock,and not Shylock Portia,when her speech on mercy does not extend that mercy to Shylock.
		Yes, we may think that Portia failed Shylock if that is the term for her hypocritical speech, but there the problem with the play isn't just the ending.
		Portia isn't as good and great as she seems (she's quite the hypocrite: "the quality of mercy is not strained" and then proceeds to act quite mercilessly towards Shylock), and Shylock isn't half as bad a person as he seems.
	www.nextbook.org /cultural/feature.html?id=519 (1320 words)

	Free Book Notes.com - Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth (Free Cliff Notes, Book Notes & Summaries)
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	Operation Shylock: A Confession Summary / Study Guide
		Operation Shylock: A Confession Summary / Study Guide
		Operation Shylock may appear unique in that Roth has manufactured two versions of himself for the principal characters, as well as concocted a broad and liberal blend of fact and fiction.
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	The Philip Roth Society
		The other three are subtitled as either an autobiography (The Facts), a memoir or "true story" (Patrimony), or a confession (Operation Shylock).
		The most elaborate of these, Operation Shylock, is arguably Roth's finest work, leading fellow writer Cynthia Ozick to call it in one of her interviews, "the Great American Jewish Novel" and Roth "the boldest American writer alive."
		Roth's next novel, Sabbath's Theater (1995), is a return to the outrageous psycho-sexual (and tragicomic) form that entertained and outraged so many in Portnoy's Complaint.
	orgs.tamu-commerce.edu /rothsoc/bio.htm (1460 words)

	Operation Shylock by Philip Roth Detailed Book Review
		Operation Shylock by Philip Roth Detailed Book Review
		"Operation Shylock tells the story of an American Jew author, Philip Roth, who hears that someone has been using his name in Israel to promote the ideology of Diasporism, that the European Jews of Israel should return to their homelands in Europe.
		The protagonist narrator, the author Philip Roth, seems to be based on the author of the book itself.
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/Info_28692.asp (413 words)

	Operation Shylock (Unabridged) -- Philip Roth
		In Operation Shylock, master novelist Philip Roth confronts his double, an impostor whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews back to Europe from Israel.
		The "fake" Philip Roth becomes a monstrous nemesis to the "real" Philip Roth, who must take a frightening and mysterious journey through the volatile Middle East.
		Suspenseful, hilarious, and impassioned, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a political thriller, and a confession, pulsing with intelligence and intense narrative energy.
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	Operation Shylock by Philip Roth : Booksamillion.com (0679750290, Paperback) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Operation Shylock, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth.
		Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator.
		With suspense, philosophical speculation, and a cast of characters that includes Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, history and nightmare.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0679750290 (147 words)

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	NPR : Novelist Philip Roth
		Fresh Air from WHYY, April 13, 2001 · His book The Human Stain about a classics professor accused of racism has just won the PENN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
		He won his first in 1994 with Operation Shylock.
		The Human Stain is the third of a trilogy which includes his American Pastoral and I Married a Communist.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1121435 (127 words)

	Table of contents for Shylock is Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Table of contents for Shylock is Shakespeare / Kenneth Gross.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
		Operation Shylock / 000 Notes / 000 Index / 000
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