/lit/ - Literature

>"and then that awful lady who said all those mean things about me wrote a wanted ad, because she's a lonely old crone (unlike me, who still crushes illiterate janitor pussy despite having my prostate removed) in which she unintentionally described me exactly, revealing that he hatred was simply an expression of her subconcious desire to ride my cock"
truly beautiful. roth must have been in touch with some divine entity when he came up with this one. i think next i'll read roth's short story on the dehumanising effects of sexism called, "the breast".

>>20274176
The OP's scandal and this novel makes me think of The Human Stain, a Roth novel where a biracial black guy pretended to be Jewish and then was accused of racism for using the word "spooks."

So a half negro university professor says to two negro students "where have you been all semester? you appear all of a sudden like spooks!" and he's fired for that? was this book ahead of its time? kek

Best book on the black experience in America too.

>>12384496
>wrote a book about a black university professor pretending to be a Jew who gets accused of racism by the political correctness police
why isn't Roth a bigger meme here? is it really just that /pol/ doesn't read?

Why do academics claim this novel isn't a critique of academia and political correctness?

Can I read this or do I have to read the trilogy from the start(American Pastoral, I Married a Communist)?

>>10852342

>Silk is accused of racism by two African American students over the use of the word "spooks," using the term to describe their absence from the classroom (like "ghosts") rather than in the racially derogatory sense
>The uproar leads to Silk's resignation
>It is slowly revealed through Zuckerman's musings that Silk is an African American who has been "passing" as a Jew since a stint in the Navy

What did he mean by this?