菲利普•罗斯（1933-2018） 美国小说家，出生于新泽西州纽瓦克市。1959年凭借处女作《再见，哥伦布》受到瞩目，此后笔耕不辍，获奖无数，赢得国内外的高度认可。2012年宣布封笔，一生共创作29部小说，代表作有《波特诺伊的怨诉》《鬼作家》《萨巴斯剧院》《美国牧歌》《人性的污秽》等。

Operation Shylock: A Confession is novelist Philip Roth's 19th book and was published in 1993. The novel follows narrator "Philip Roth" on a journey to Israel. There he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk, while at the same time seeking out the impersonator who has appropriated his identity and celebrity in order to spread "Diasporism," a counter-Zionist id...(展开全部)

What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In this tour de force of fact and fiction, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring the State of Israel, promoting a bizarre exodus in reverse of the Jews. Roth decides to stop him - even if that m...(展开全部)

A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. ‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’ With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s ...(展开全部)

Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of “The Merchant of Venice,” Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthoo...(展开全部)

菲利普•罗斯（1933-2018） 美国小说家，出生于新泽西州纽瓦克市。1959年凭借处女作《再见，哥伦布》受到瞩目，此后笔耕不辍，获奖无数，赢得国内外的高度认可。2012年宣布封笔，一生共创作29部小说，代表作有《波特诺伊的怨诉》《鬼作家》《萨巴斯剧院》《美国牧歌》《人性的污秽》等。

霍华德·雅各布森 Howard Jacobson，英国犹太裔小说家、专栏作家，在剑桥大学塞尔文学院任教，自诩为 “犹太裔的简·奥斯丁”。他的主要作品包括：《强大的华尔泽》《此刻谁抱歉？》《卡鲁奇之夜》（入围2006年布克奖长名单）、《爱情迫害狂》等。2010年凭喜剧 小说《芬克勒问题》摘得布克奖。 霍华德·雅各布森最擅长描写人们在自我身份认同问题上的挣扎，文风幽默睿智，却力道十足，辛辣讽刺。选定改写《威尼斯商人》后遭友人嘲笑，觉得他会自砸招牌。但他坚持，并表示一定要独辟蹊径，让剧中的犹太人夏洛克发出不同的声音。