'Philip Roth: Unmasked' review: A bit sanitized
Pulitizer Prize- and National Book Award-winning novelist Philip Roth, in New York, is the subject of "Unmasked." (Sept. 15, 2010) Credit: Reuters
Still, "Philip Roth: Unmasked" feels too much like hagiography to be truly penetrating. Valid or not, the charge that Roth's work is misogynistic gets no airing here, and we hear nothing of his troubled second marriage to actress Claire Bloom, which was the subject of her scandalous 1996 memoir, "Leaving a Doll's House." Though Roth has long been discussed as a prime candidate for a Nobel Prize, his failure to bag world literature's highest honor is unaddressed, along with his recent declaration, during an interview with a French magazine, that he was done writing fiction.
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