My Rotheory is that he wasn't really repelled by the ostensible repellent elements that nourish his novels—ever dutiful, he avows them, identifies with them, extols them as counter-virtues, a truer morality than the one imposed by fretful parents, the rabbis, priggish critics.
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That's why Kafka obsessed and terrified him: Kafka internalized that moralism and it prevented him from living; Roth performatively purged himself of it and lived, with an immoralism that he saw as highly moral—but the related Job-ish drama is that life, existence, took revenge
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That's very clear in Sabbath's Theater (my favorite is his and Roth's favorite as well): adultery is the highest fidelity.
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