Abbott, Porter, 28n21

Alberca, Manuel, 136

as-if history, 47, 50

as-if strategy, 33, 109–110, 167, 169

See also counternarrative

audience, 7n5, 11, 54, 87n53, 178, 181, 215

effects on, 57–58

authorial, 232, 235

See also reader activity

American Pastoral, 5, 117, 127, 134, 139–161, 163–169, 174, 181, 184–185, 187–189, 191–192, 195–196, 210–211, 214–215, 218, 226

assimilation in, 146, 158

genesis of the book, 148–152

story versus discourse in, 154

Anatomy Lesson (The), 5, 12, 38, 45, 66–67n41, 76, 79, 82–91, 128n83

deathbed scene in, 70, 80, 82

and Zuckerman’s subject, 85–90, 93

alter ego. See Zuckerman as Roth’s alter ego. See also impersonation, art of

ambiguity, 4, 29, 32n24, 44, 200

anti-Semitism, 3, 107, 112, 173, 205

art of fiction, 11, 13, 17–19, 33, 35, 38, 100, 120, 165, 215, 220

assimilationSee also hyphenation, 3, 111, 114, 145, 153, 161n109

autobiographySee also The Facts, 2–3, 19, 21–22n16, 30, 34–36, 41, 164

authorshipSee also authority, 4, 11, 13, 21, 28, 40, 107, 110, 140, 155, 191, 210, 232, 238

authority, 47, 106

Bellette, Amy, 45–47, 52, 75, 147, 215, 222

Benn Michaels, Walter, 158

Berryman, Charles, 86, 92n56

book boundaries crossing, 62, 69–70, 72, 74, 139

boundaries blurring, 11, 120

Brauner, David, ix, 5n3, 10, 19, 28, 34, 148, 157, 200–201

Brent, Jonathan, 135

Breast (The), 83, 234

Brodkin, Karen, 200, 202

Brooks, Peter, 83

Carnovsky, 3, 63, 67, 70, 74–81, 86–87, 92–93, 209

Castañeda, Hector Neri, 53

characterization, 6–8

Charmé, Stuart, 114

Chatman, Seymour, 227

circumcision

in The Counterlife, 107, 116–117

inAmerican Pastoral, 140, 145, 159

inThe Human Stain, 206n159

coherence

biographical, 232–233

narrativeSee also inconsistencies, 122, 141, 141, 228