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that he could not do the creative remove
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that the pros do because the creative remove,
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he says, "It's still the raw thing."
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It's a bad book because it's still the raw thing.
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He has no self-distancing.
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So, what the critique of Nathan does, the implicit critique
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of Nathan does, is distance us from him, to some degree.
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It allows us to see him as an unreliable narrator.
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It also, I think, models Roth's own relation
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to Nathan Zuckerman.
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Nathan Zuckerman is the creative remove, is the medium of the
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creative remove, that Roth requires