From Facts to Farce: The Tragedy of Passing in Philip Roth’s Zuckerman Novels

The present paper analyses Philip Roth’s so-called Zuckerman novels, in which Nathan Zuckerman assumes the roles of narrator, protagonist, and Roth’s alter ego. More precisely, the purpose of this paper is to address, and, if possible, to shed some light over the farcical nature of Roth’s fiction, with a particular focus on The Human Stain (2000), wherein Coleman Silk, a