Volume 28, Number 11 · June 25, 1981
The Revenge of the Vrai
By Edward Rothstein
Zuckerman Unbound
by Philip Roth
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 225 pp., $10.95
Nathan Zuckerman, thrice-married son of a foot doctor, is not just a novelist who likes to quote Flaubert and invoke the powers of Art. No, as Philip Roth intimates in the title of his new novel, Zuckerman Unbound, Nathan has a great mythological predecessor, Prometheus, whose own story was told by Aeschylus in a similarly titled tale. Zuckerman, of course, does nothing so dramatic as stealing fire from Zeus for the benefit of human civilization. All he does is write a book.
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