Nathan Zuckerman - Wikipedia Nathan Zuckerman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Nathan Zuckerman First appearance My Life as a Man Last appearance Exit Ghost Created by Philip Roth In-universe information Occupation Novelist Religion Judaism Nationality American Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character created by the writer Philip Roth, who uses him as his protagonist and narrator, a type of alter ego, in many of his novels.[1] Contents 1 Character 2 Analysis 3 Portrayals 4 List of Zuckerman Novels 5 References 6 External resources Character[edit] Roth first created a character named Nathan Zuckerman in the novel My Life as a Man (1974), where he is the "product" of another fictional Roth figure, the writer Peter Tarnopol (making Zuckerman, in his original form, an "alter-alter-ego"). Discrepancies (including date of birth, details of his upbringing, and personal background) exist between the characters, leading most to consider this an early version, and not necessarily the Zuckerman around whom subsequent novels would revolve. In later books, Roth uses Zuckerman as a protagonist, starting with the 1979 novel The Ghost Writer, where he is a writing apprentice on a pilgrimage to cull the wisdom of the reclusive author E. I. Lonoff. In Zuckerman Unbound (1981), he has become established as a novelist and must deal with the fall-out from his ribald comedic novel Carnovsky. Though wildly successful, the novel has brought to Zuckerman unwanted attention from both readers and his family, who object to their portrayal in his work.[2] Exit Ghost (2007) is the ninth book in the Zuckerman series, and is the last Zuckerman novel. The book explores Zuckerman's life as an older man, returning to New York City after an extended period of seclusion in the Berkshires.[3] Analysis[edit] By creating parallels between Zuckerman's life as a novelist (with the novel Carnovsky a stand-in for his Portnoy's Complaint) and his own, Roth expressed his interest in the relationship between an author and his work. Roth mined such meta-fictional concerns more deeply in his series of novels published in the 1980s, most radically in The Counterlife and Operation Shylock. By the mid-1990s, though, Roth tamped down on the self-referentiality. He reintroduced Zuckerman as witness and narrator in a trilogy of historical novels: American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000), set in the period from the 1960s into the 1990s. The British Indian author Salman Rushdie used Zuckerman as a character in his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999), where in an alternate universe, it is the literary alter-egos (and their novels) that are real.[4] Portrayals[edit] Actors who have portrayed Nathan Zuckerman include Mark Linn-Baker (in the 1984 television adaptation of The Ghost Writer), Gary Sinise (in the 2003 film adaptation of The Human Stain) and David Strathairn (in the 2016 film adaptation of American Pastoral). List of Zuckerman Novels[edit] The Ghost Writer (1979) Zuckerman Unbound (1981) The Anatomy Lesson (1983) The Prague Orgy (1985) (The above four books are collected as Zuckerman Bound) The Counterlife (1986) American Pastoral (1997) I Married a Communist (1998) The Human Stain (2000) Exit Ghost (2007) References[edit] ^ "Philip Roth's 'Ghost' Returns", NPR, 25 September 2007 ^ Metcalf, Steven. "Zuckerman Unbound", Slate, 10 October 2007 ^ James, Clive. "Falter Ego", The New York Times, 7 October 2007 ^ Patterson, Troy. "Book Review: The Ground Beneath Her Feet", EW, 16 April 1999 External resources[edit] United States portal Books portal "Philip Roth: The Zuckerman books", Salon Nathan Zuckerman on IMDb v t e Works by Philip Roth Fiction Goodbye, Columbus (1959) Letting Go (1962) When She Was Good (1967) Portnoy's Complaint (1969) Our Gang (1971) The Great American Novel (1973) My Life as a Man (1974) Sabbath's Theater (1995) Kepesh novels The Breast (1972) The Professor of Desire (1977) The Dying Animal (2001) Roth books The Facts (1988) Deception (1990) Patrimony (1991) Operation Shylock (1993) The Plot Against America (2004) Zuckerman novels Zuckerman Bound The Ghost Writer (1979) Zuckerman Unbound (1981) The Anatomy Lesson (1983) The Prague Orgy (1985) The Counterlife (1986) American Pastoral (1997) I Married a Communist (1998) The Human Stain (2000) Exit Ghost (2007) Nemeses: Short Novels Everyman (2006) Indignation (2008) The Humbling (2009) Nemesis (2010) Collections Reading Myself and Others (1976) A Philip Roth Reader (1980, revised edition 1993) Shop Talk (2001) The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works (2005–17) Film/TV adaptations Goodbye, Columbus (1969) Portnoy's Complaint (1972) The Human Stain (2003) Elegy (2008) The Humbling (2014) Indignation (2016) American Pastoral (2016) The Plot Against America (2020) Deception (TBA) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathan_Zuckerman&oldid=938224122" Categories: Characters in American novels of the 20th century Characters in American novels of the 21st century Author surrogates Fictional writers Fictional American Jews Literary characters introduced in 1974 Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Italiano עברית Edit links This page was last edited on 29 January 2020, at 21:34 (UTC). 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