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The Human Stain

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559:, writing that "Roth achieves something here that is very difficult to imagine his mostly domesticated descendants even attempting: He steps fully out of his own backyard and dares to imagine what he cannot possibly know by means of his own personal identity. I came to this gem late, as a 33-year-old 'mixed-race' black man who'd just become the father of a blond-haired, blue-eyed 'black' daughter who could pass for Swedish. Flipping through my paperback now, I smile as I reread the dog-eared pages, their margins overflowing with comments to the effect of: 1355: 1369: 293:. When he introduces a white girlfriend to his family and they realize he is "passing", his brother cuts him off from the family. Silk marries Iris, a non-religious Jewish woman, and has four children. His wife and children are unaware of his ancestry; he invents a Jewish background and tells them he's unable to get in touch with his few living relatives. 410:
restraints, but became what he once despised. His downfall to some extent is engineered by Delphine Roux, the young, female, elite, French intellectual who is dismayed to find herself in a New England outpost of sorts, and sees Silk as having become deadwood in academia, the very thing he abhorred at the beginning of his own career."
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life. ... When stripped of its racial overtones, Roth's book echoes a story he has told in novel after novel. Indeed, it closely parallels the story of Nathan Zuckerman, himself another dutiful, middle-class boy from New Jersey who rebelled against his family and found himself exiled, 'unbound' as it were, from his roots.
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Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain attracted considerable attention some years back; it was widely read as a fictionalized version of literary critic Anatole Broyard's life. Broyard, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, was a light-skinned black man who decided early in his career to 'pass';
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When Zuckerman and Silk are together and testing each other, Roth's writing reaches an emotional intensity and a vividness not exceeded in any of his books. The American dream of starting over entirely new has the force of inevitability here, and Roth's judgment clearly is that you can never make it
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In the summer of 1998, just after Iris dies, the 71-year-old Silk approaches Zuckerman and asks him to write a book on the incident. Ranting about it, Silk blames the widespread condemnation of him on, among other things, anti-semitism. Zuckerman is uninterested, but the two begin a brief friendship
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Mark Shechner writes in his 2003 study that in the novel, Roth "explores issues in American society that force a man such as Silk to hide his background, to the point of not having a personal history to share with his children or family. He wanted to pursue an independent course unbounded by racial
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Especially in the second half of the novel, there are scenes detailing the thoughts and feelings of other characters, notably Faunia, Les Farley, and Delphine Roux, Silk's main antagonist at Athena. Zuckerman gives his sources for some conversations at which he was not present, but he also says, "I
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can shape, even destroy, an individual's life, a book that takes all of Roth's favorite themes of identity and rebellion and generational strife and refracts them not through the narrow prism of the self but through a wide-angle lens that exposes the fissures and discontinuities of 20th-century
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Some time after his approach to Zuckerman, Silk loses most contact with the people other than Faunia whom he is on good terms with, including his children and Zuckerman. In November, Silk and Faunia Farley are killed in a car accident, which Zuckerman suspects was caused by Farley's jealous and
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and Silk tells him his life story. Zuckerman is surprised to learn that Silk is in a relationship with Faunia Farley, a 34-year-old woman who works as a janitor at the college and who everyone including Silk believes (falsely, as it turns out) is illiterate.
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A successful academic career in classics leads to his position of dean, where he raises the faculty's standards by forcing out less academically accomplished professors. Decades later, he returns to teaching and is accused of racism as described above.
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Roth himself stated that he had not known of Broyard's ancestry when he started writing the book and only learned of it months later. In Roth's words, written in "An Open Letter to Knowledge (XXG)" and published by
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There are many ways to display brilliance through narrative, but one of the most difficult — and courageous — is to render the I-who-is-not-I as vividly as one can render the self."
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I knew Anatole slightly, and I didn't know he was black. Eventually there was a New Yorker article describing Anatole's life written months and months after I had begun my book.
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all the way. There is no comfort in this vision, but the tranquility Zuckerman achieves as he tells the story is infectious, and that is a certain reward.
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Kaplan, Brett Ashley (2005). "Anatole Broyard's Human Stain: Performing Postracial Consciousness." Philip Roth Studies, 1.2 (2005): 125–144
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my professional debt to the late Anatole Broyard, the 'passer' and Times book reviewer on whom Mr. Roth's Coleman Silk is partly based.
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reported on reviews from several publications with a rating scale for the novel out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish":
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This complex novel about 'dissembling and impersonation is the work of a remarkable creative intelligence,' added Alvin H. Rosen.
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Boddy, Kasia (2010). Philip Roth's Great Books: A Reading of The Human Stain. Cambridge Quarterly (2010) 39 (1): 39–60.
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Faisst, Julia (2006). "Delusionary Thinking, Whether White or Black or in Between: Fictions of Race in Philip Roth's
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Philip Roth and America's Inexplicable War: Situating The Human Stain and American Pastoral within the Vietnam Canon
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students after he wonders aloud whether the reason they have missed all his classes so far is that they are "
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Coleman Silk is a former professor and dean of the faculty at Athena College, a fictional institution in
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Plotting the Frames of Subjectivity: Identity, Death, and Narrative in Philip Roth's The Human Stain
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Kaplan, Brett Ashley (2005). "Anatole Broyard's Human Stain: Performing Postracial Consciousness."
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Brent Staples, "Editorial Observer; Back When Skin Color Was Destiny, Unless You Passed for White"
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Vol. 73, No. 1, Special Issue: The Faculty in the New Millennium (Jan. – Feb., 2002), pp. 161–172
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The novel was well received, became a national bestseller, and won numerous awards. According to
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Tierney, William G. (2002). "Interpreting Academic Identities: Reality and Fiction on Campus".
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Tierney, William G. (2002). "Interpreting Academic Identities: Reality and Fiction on Campus",
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Zuckerman's version of the story starts when Coleman Silk is a light-skinned black boy in
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Safer, Elaine B. "Tragedy and Farce in Roth's the Human Stain". in Bloom, Harold (ed.)
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Passing into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing
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likewise, in 2024, listed the novel as one of the best books of the 21st century.
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suggested that the central character of Coleman Silk might have been inspired by
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Boddy, Kasia (2010). "Philip Roth's Great Books: A Reading of The Human Stain".
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In 1996, two years before the main action of the novel, Silk is accused of
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asked several prominent authors to name their favorite work by him.
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is set in 1998 in the United States, during the period of President
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imagine. I am forced to imagine. It is my job. It's now all I do."
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how his novel was inspired by an event in the life of his friend
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he cut ties with his family and lived his life as a white man.
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In the reviews of the book in both the daily and the Sunday
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In choosing it for its "Editors' Choice" list of 2000,
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in the late 1990s. Its narrator is 65-year-old author
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This article is about the novel. For the movie, see
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Index

The Human Stain (film)

Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin
Hardback
Paperback
ISBN
0-618-05945-8
OCLC
43109968
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Philip Roth
Western Massachusetts
Nathan Zuckerman
American Pastoral
I Married a Communist
protagonist
film by the same name
Robert Benton
the Berkshires
Massachusetts
racism
African-American
spooks
racial epithet
East Orange, New Jersey
pass
Howard University
Navy

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