My Life as a Man
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My Life as a Man is a 1974 novel by Philip Roth that explores themes of identity, authorship, and the complexities of male-female relationships through a metafictional structure.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| My Life as a Man canonical | 1 |
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Philip Roth ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| explores |
the construction of self through writing
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the relationship between life and fiction ⓘ the reliability of narrative ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Maureen Tarnopol
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Peter Tarnopol ⓘ |
| follows | The Great American Novel ⓘ |
| genre |
autofiction
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literary fiction ⓘ metafiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780030083900 ⓘ |
| hasMetafictionalDevice | fictional stories written by the protagonist about versions of himself ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 330 pages ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
authorship
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identity ⓘ male-female relationships ⓘ marriage ⓘ masculinity ⓘ self-reflexivity in fiction ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | metafictional structure ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of Roth’s self-reflexive style
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intense portrayal of a destructive marriage ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Philip Roth bibliography ⓘ |
| precedes | Reading Myself and Others ⓘ |
| protagonist | Peter Tarnopol ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| structure | framed by fictional stories within a memoir-like narrative ⓘ |
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