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Philip Roth writes a slick Po-mo novel and beats Don Delillo three ways from Sunday at his own game.
Deception starts out as a lover's discourse, a dialogue without description or even much stage direction. But, what we think will be about deceiving one's husband and/or wife turns out to be about deceiving one's readership through fiction itself. Which is also to deceive one's wife by writing about one's imaginary lover, and then to write about one's wife's objections to one writing about one's imaginary lover--and then the lover's objections to being fictionalized, within the fiction...
Crisp, penetrating, addressing place, race, gender, power, and discourse itself Deception shines as a translucent, perfectly cut gem.
Deception starts out as a lover's discourse, a dialogue without description or even much stage direction. But, what we think will be about deceiving one's husband and/or wife turns out to be about deceiving one's readership through fiction itself. Which is also to deceive one's wife by writing about one's imaginary lover, and then to write about one's wife's objections to one writing about one's imaginary lover--and then the lover's objections to being fictionalized, within the fiction...
Crisp, penetrating, addressing place, race, gender, power, and discourse itself Deception shines as a translucent, perfectly cut gem.