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Unfinished novella, scattered drafts
Box 129, Folders 4-5 -
Unfinished works, drafts, short stories and events that lead to Portonoy's development
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Newspaper clipping from 1945 (The Last Jew)
- Written over it a date: 5/2/65
Box 129, Folder 5 -
Portonoy's Complaint is set in 1966
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Unpublished first chapter that becomes part of the first official draft of Portnoy
Box 155, Folder 3 -
- 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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Unofficial drafts until "nearly finalized editions" of drafts
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Publication of A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis in Esquire Magazine
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Roth and Ann Mudge rent a house in Martha's Vineyard for the month
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Publication of Whacking off in the Partisan Review, Summer issue
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Folder is dated Jan 1967, this feels more like a narration of his process rather than the story itself
Box 183, Folder 2 -
Publication of The Jewish Blues in the New American Review, September 1967
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Becomes Whacking off
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Publication of extract titled "Civilization and its Discontents" in the New American Review, 1968
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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.
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He says that within two weeks, Roth would have his new novel
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Between finalized drafts and publication, includes galleys and trip to London
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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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Roth asks Esquire magazine for his draft of the Jewish Patient Begins his Analysis