Post It #238

Para os apreciadores de Philip Roth. Aqui, há uma excelente entrevista com o autor, a pretexto do seu novo livro "The Plot Against America".

Why did you choose "Philip Roth" as your protagonist?

Philip Roth: I told myself this when I started this book - make one change. Just change the 1940 election and then follow out the consequences of it. Therefore, I used my family and me. Now, had I invented a family, I would have wound up inventing a family very much like ours. I also thought if I used our real names and said, "Look, I was there," at a certain point the reader might forget that this was an invention. A false memoir is what it is.