- Hardcover
- Publisher: Farrar Giroux (1968)
- ASIN: B000UV52EI
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Roth's most profound if questionable probing of Jewish questions,
By Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: The Counter Life (Hardcover)
This is one of Roth's best works. And it is the most profound if questionable probing of political Jewish questions. The brilliance of the writing is connected with the construction of 'counter' or 'alternative lives ' for the main characters. The suggestion is that a life is a limitation, one path chosen when there might as well have been another.
The action takes us to Eretz Yisrael where one of the alter egos is a 'settler'in Judea and Samaria. In this work Roth presents his own dovish views, and his own criticisms of those who believe Israel should be the center of Jewish life. He defends his own kind of Diaspora Jewishness. Nontheless, the passion, the involvement here are great. A work to be read and reflected upon.
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