My Life As a Man
My Life as a Man ( original title: My Life As a Man ) ( 1974) is the seventh novel by Philip Roth.
The work consists of two parts: The first part of "Useful Fictions " ( Useful Fictions ) consists of two short stories about a Nathan Zuckerman. The second part, " My True Story " ( My True Story), is the first-person narrative of the fictional Jewish writer Peter Tarnopol, who wrote the two short stories by the first part.
In My Life as a Man Roth treated for the first time the relationship between the author and his work. In his later novels, especially in surgery Shylock he has been the subject then continued. In his autobiography, Roth explains that Tarnopol autobiography contains much of his own experience, for example, the ruinous his marriage to Margaret Martinson, which is reflected in Tarnopols relationship with the fictional character Maureen.