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Legal Separation from Maggie
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The Last Jew
Unfinished novella, scattered drafts
Box 129, Folders 4-5 -
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Pre-drafting
Unfinished works, drafts, short stories and events that lead to Portonoy's development -
"The survivor syndrome Auschwitz Reverbation" News clipping
Newspaper clipping from 1945 (The Last Jew)
- Written over it a date: 5/2/65
Box 129, Folder 5 -
Portnoy is set
Portonoy's Complaint is set in 1966 -
Nice Jewish Boy or Masochist Extravaganza
Unpublished first chapter that becomes part of the first official draft of Portnoy
Box 155, Folder 3 -
Portrait of the Artist as a Nice Jewish Boy
- Robert is the narrator, married to Sarah Abbott Mausley
- Portonoy's family lives upstairs
- Portonoy's son, Jack, died in the war (sophisticated character)
- Multifamily house in Newark, NJ
- P109; Not wanting to go to the temple
- P129; Mother changing in front of son
- Final aside about wife, repeated Box 183, Folder 2
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Drafting process
Unofficial drafts until "nearly finalized editions" of drafts -
Esquire: A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis
Publication of A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis in Esquire Magazine -
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Roth and Ann at Martha's Vineyard
Roth and Ann Mudge rent a house in Martha's Vineyard for the month -
Partisan Review: Whacking off
Publication of Whacking off in the Partisan Review, Summer issue -
Letter to Joe Fox
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Aside in Portrait of the Artist as a Nice Jewish Boy
Folder is dated Jan 1967, this feels more like a narration of his process rather than the story itself
Box 183, Folder 2 -
New American Review: The Jewish Blues
Publication of The Jewish Blues in the New American Review, September 1967 -
My Son the Patient
Becomes Whacking off -
New American Review: Civilization and its Discontents
Publication of extract titled "Civilization and its Discontents" in the New American Review, 1968 -
Maggie dies
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Yaddo
12 days in Yaddo where Roth takes the first drafts of the last two chapters. By the end, he has a "nearly final" draft of the whole work. -
Joe Fox Announces PC to Random House
He says that within two weeks, Roth would have his new novel -
Final Drafts Compiled
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Final revisions
Between finalized drafts and publication, includes galleys and trip to London -
Letter to Epstein
Roth writes to Epstein about Ted Solotaroff and George Eliott disliking his epigraph idea. Roth and Epstein are the only ones that find it funny -
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Post-publication
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Esquire drafts back
Roth asks Esquire magazine for his draft of the Jewish Patient Begins his Analysis