Facts Schmacts
John Sutherland, 16 February 1989
The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography
by Philip Roth.
Cape, 328 pp., £12.95, February 1989,0 224 02593 7 Show More
by Philip Roth.
Cape, 328 pp., £12.95, February 1989,
“... her.’ After this excess the author was evidently surfeited. ‘Did literature do this to me?’ David Kapesh asks when he wakes to find himself in a gigantic breast. It did and it has done awesome things to Roth. Hungover, he yearns for the equivalent of decaffeinated coffee, literature purged of everything literary. Stylistic nakedness is one ... ”