Operation Shylock
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Operation Shylock is a postmodern novel by Philip Roth that blends fiction and autobiography in a darkly comic exploration of identity, Jewishness, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Operation Shylock canonical | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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postmodern novel ⓘ |
| author | Philip Roth ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| explores |
Holocaust memory
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Jewish diaspora politics ⓘ Zionism ⓘ diasporism ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Nathan Zuckerman
ⓘ
surface form:
Philip Roth (character)
|
| genre |
comic novel
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metafiction ⓘ political novel ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Moishe Pipik
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Nathan Zuckerman ⓘ
surface form:
Philip Roth (protagonist)
|
| hasISBN | 0-671-70376-5 ⓘ |
| hasParatext | disclaimer about veracity ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryAward | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Arab–Israeli conflict
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surface form:
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Jewish identity ⓘ authorship ⓘ diaspora ⓘ doubling ⓘ identity ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
autofiction
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blending of fiction and autobiography ⓘ unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambiguous boundary between fact and fiction
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controversial treatment of Israeli politics ⓘ self-reflexive narration ⓘ |
| pageCount | 400 ⓘ |
| partOf | Philip Roth bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| publisher | Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| setAfter |
The Eichmann Trial
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surface form:
Eichmann trial (historical background)
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| setting |
Europe
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Israel ⓘ Jerusalem ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Mossad
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espionage ⓘ |
| tone |
darkly comic
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satirical ⓘ |
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