I Married a Communist by Philip Roth - Reading World of _I Married A Communist_

Iron Rinn (né Ira Ringold) is a self-educated radio actor, married to a spoilt, rags-to-riches beauty, silent-film star Eve Frame (née Chave Fromkin). He is a Communist, and a sucker for suffering, locked into the cycle of violence from which he has emerged. She has risen by assiduous imitation of what is classy--which seems to include a wide swathe of anti-Semitism--and ultimately denounces her husband as a Soviet spook. And who would be the narrator of this McCarthy-era meltdown? None other than Philip Roths longtime alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, who learns the full tragedy several decades later, owing to a chance encounter with Iras brother: Im the only person living who knows Iras story, 90-year-old Murray Ringold tells Nathan, youre the only person still living who cares about it.

Characteristically, Nathan also discovers that his own story was bound up with the blacklistings and ruined careers of the immediate postwar period. It seems that he had been tainted by his association with the Ringolds--Murray was in fact his high-school teacher--and was denied the Fulbright scholarship he deserved. They had you down for Iras nephew, Murray tells Nathan. The FBI didnt always get everything right. Roths acerbic style and keen eye for emotional detail goes to the heart of this moment of high tragedy in which the American dream was damaged beyond repair. --Lisa Jardine

Reading World of _I Married A Communist_
The readingworld of books that affect the reader's sense of being in that world (like Pereira Declares [Sostiene Pereira] by Antonio Tabucchi) helps readers to understand their personal world. Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman grew up in a time that mirrors the time since 9/11 [2001-2008] as a difficult time for thoughtfulness and inquiry. The readingworld of I Married a Communist (1998) illuminates the early 1950's, an era of witch hunt and blacklist. Robert Kelley in the NYTBR observed:

This book draws strength from that terrible time, a time that perhaps was our Trojan War, when we first learned, as a people, to give way to brutality, innuendo and deceit. Roth explores our expedients and tragedies with a masterly, often unnerving, blend of tenderness, harshness, insight and wit. "I Married a Communist" is a gripping novel, memorable, its characters hateful and adorable by turns.

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The readingworld includes:

The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand.1938.

Howard Fast, Citizen Tom Paine. [ banned in high school libraries in New York City.]1943.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason.1795.

Norman Corwin (well, radio, and more).
On a Note of Triumph.

Arch Oboler.

Himan Brown.

Paul Rhymer .

Carlton E. Morse.

William N. Robson.

Focus (1945) and Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller.

The Naked and the Dead. (1948) Norman Mailer.

The Young Lions. (1948) Irwin Shaw.

Shylock [Merchant of Venice], Richard III, Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth. Shakespeare.

Anatomy of Melancholy. (1621) Richard Burton.

Red Channels. (1950).
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And the general mood of the writer/narrator is dislike of women; toxic.

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