NP - Roth's Women

[Ghetta Life]

Philip Roth is one of America's greatest living writers - some would say the 
greatest. But Julia Keller says that despite the undeniable genius of his 
words, there is a discomfort in reading Roth, and it stems from the fact 
that "his women have no souls. [They] are mere mirrors to men. Echoes and 
shadows. Pale parallels... the fact that Roth gives short shrift to half the 
human race is crushingly sad. Were Roth a lesser writer, it wouldn't matter; 
his greatness, however, transforms that lack from a simple failing into a 
reverberating anguish."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0605310232jun01,1,4778371.story?coll=chi-leisuretempo-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

Philip Roth hates women*
(*Is that true? And does it matter?)

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