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And, in another sense, it doubles the threat of writing
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really only about men,
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that what's weak about the novel is the way that
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it inhabits the subjectivities of women especially.
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Delphine Roux is just a caricature, really,
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and in many small ways Faunia is a caricature, too.
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I've talked about Ernestine.
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Les can be seen as a caricature.
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So, it's not something exclusive to his female characters,
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but it does suggest, as I mentioned a little while back
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in the lecture, a certain kind of limit to Roth's project.
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So, I will finish by saying Roth is an extremely important writer in