Like much of Roth's fiction, this book confronts the tenuous
relationship between an author and his artistic creations. It resumes
the story of Roth's fictional alter ego Nathan Zuckerman that was
inaugurated in Roth's previous novel The Ghost Writer.

The novel parallels several real events in Roth's life, including the
publication of his 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint and the hoopla which
surrounded Roth in the wake of that novel's fame. By analogy, in
Zuckerman Unbound, Zuckerman has achieved meteoric acclaim and notoriety
with "Carnovsky", a coming-of-age sex romp that differs remarkably from
Zuckerman's previously Jamesian fiction. The extent to which the details
of the Zuckerman character can be safely compared to those of Roth has
been a subject of zealous debate among Roth's readers. Roth himself has
weighed in on the debate, both in interviews and within his fiction.


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