Philip Roth:
Well, yes. It's — well, it's a false memoir, isn't it?
So it's an act of — it appears to be an act of memory, but it's a false memoir.
I had a little slogan I would use with myself when I was writing this book, and from — if you want more falsification — I said to myself whenever I got stuck, which was frequently, don't invent, just remember.
I think the subject of the book that interested me was, to put what I said earlier another way, how much pressure can you bring to bear on this family, and what will happen when you bring maximum pressure to bear on them?
They're all trying to cope with this menace, the menace of Lindbergh. And the pressures are enormous. And they're all trying to cope with the humiliation, too, even the little tiny boy, the humiliation of being, of the Jews somehow being separated out, of appearing to be not welcome.
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