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3 unusual facts about The Human Stain


Death of Antonio Calvo

Writers in Spain have observed that Calvo's story bears similarities to a number of academic novels, including Philip Roth's The Human Stain.

Kaddish

In Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain, the narrator states that the Mourner's Kaddish signifies that "a Jew is dead. Another Jew is dead. As though death were not a consequence of life but a consequence of having been a Jew."

Melvin Tumin

The author Philip Roth, a friend of Tumin, said that his novel The Human Stain (2000) was inspired by an incident that happened to the professor.



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