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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instanceOf novel
author Philip Roth
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
explores the construction of self through writing
the relationship between life and fiction
the reliability of narrative
featuresCharacter Maureen Tarnopol
Peter Tarnopol
follows The Great American Novel
genre autofiction
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
identity
male-female relationships
marriage
masculinity
self-reflexivity in fiction
mediaType print
narrativeForm metafictional structure
notableFor early example of Roth’s self-reflexive style
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
surface form: United States
structure framed by fictional stories within a memoir-like narrative

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Philip Roth notableWork My Life as a Man