![]() Roosevelt’s bid for a third presidential term, assumes the highest office in the United States, and forms an alliance with Hitler. The Plot Against America, by contrast, offers a kind of literary what-if it tells the story of the Roth family in 1940s Newark, framed by the historical fantasy that Charles A. Operation Shylock neatly employs historical events (such as the trial of Ivan Demjanjuk), preserved intact, as backdrop for its outlandish plotline: someone impersonating Philip Roth travels to Israel in order to promote Diasporism, a reverse exodus, advocating that the Jews repatriate to those very places in Europe, such as Germany and Poland, where they had faced annihilation. Operation Shylock and The Plot Against America assume the mantle of boundary-blurring in fundamentally different, if not opposing, ways. ![]() ![]() Few authors blur the boundary between fact and fiction so provocatively as Philip Roth, a twilight zone he unabashedly staked out as an integral part of his literary creation. ![]()
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