Philip Roth is a writer of original talents who has created a personal skill to convey his vision. Though he is not a prolific writer, he is skilled and impressive. His fame begins on the single novella Goodbye Columbus which was published in 1959. The novella won National Book Award for Fiction for dealing with an irreverent and humorous portrait of American Jewish life. Roth's fiction is known for its profoundly autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally shaping the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "supple, ingenious style" and for its challenging explorations of Jewish and American identity. He is one of the most award-winning U.S. writers of his generation. Besides his novel, Roth has written diverse novels, short stories and essays which deal with search of self-identity. He brilliantly pictures out the deep situated thought through his …show more content…
Chapter I is the study of American Literature in general. It deals with the writings of great American writers of twentieth and twenty first century who expressed their thoughts and life through literary writing. Chapter II throws light on Philip Roth’s life and his work. He is known for the explorations of Jewish and American identity, often focusing on sexual and familial love and mortality. He has earned many accolades for his work over the years; including a second National Book Award for 1995’s Sabbath’s Theatre and a Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. The chapter goes deep into finding how the person who had an ambition of becoming a writer and the milieu which brought him name and fame in his literary career. The third chapter includes the major significant theories which make a writer to apply his work to make it efficient for reading. The theories commence with the Beginning Theory by Peter Barry and Stylistics, Narratology and others are dealt in nutshell. These are the theories which help the readers to comprehend the writer’s