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a very prominent Jewish literary critic,
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public intellectual,
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wrote a famous essay in 1972 called
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"Philip Roth Reconsidered."
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And he basically said that the
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adulation given to Roth was entirely inappropriate--he now
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saw on reflection, now that he had read Portnoy's
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Complaint--because Roth had an unfocused hostility towards
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the Jewish community.
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This enraged Roth.
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That rage fueled huge portions of his career.
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When, in The Human Stain,