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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
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in order to write about his own life.
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Most of the Nathan Zuckerman novels draw very heavily on Roth's life,
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and in fact at one point Roth writes an autobiographical nonfiction book
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called The Facts. And it's all,
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mostly, about complaining, about the response to Portnoy's
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Complaint, and also caviling against
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his ex-wife, a very happy habit that Roth has.
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At the end of The Facts there is a letter to Roth from
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Nathan Zuckerman where he says, "You idiot.