Nathan Zuckerman is back in Manhattan that he left 11 years earlier and it was the ghosts of his youth, of his glory, who invite him. Those of EI Lonoff, Amy Bellett, the muse of the great writer or those, more painful, his erotic desires. Exit Ghost recalls, although voluntarily, one of the first Roth works, The Ghost Writer, during which the young Zuckerman discovers the intimacy of the master, EI Lonoff and fantasy and imagine the life of the young student who works there. In Exit Ghost, desire takes the form of generous and Amy is not precisely known whether this desire is reciprocal or the product of the fertile imagination of the writer or the beginning of senility. It assists during a emouvant fight between the desire and the body, between the creative mind and brain we guess ill, between the fertile life in Manhattan, and retirement, in the mountains.
Exit Ghost is a very strong condenses themes dear to Philip Roth and is of a different caliber than Everyman. This is, again, a masterpiece.
