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Portnoy's Complaint is a 1969 American novel by Philip Roth. [2] Its success turned Roth into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit and candid treatment of sexuality, including detailed depictions of masturbation using various props including a piece of liver. [3] The novel tells the humorous monologue of "a lust ...
Sep 20, 1994 · Portnoy's Complaint. Paperback – September 20, 1994. by Philip Roth (Author) 4.1 2,975 ratings. See all formats and editions. The groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral that originally propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this ...
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About Portnoy’s Complaint. The groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral that originally propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander ...
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Apr 13, 2011 · Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient ...
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May 23, 2018 · Philip Roth, the American author who scandalized the literary world with 1969’s “Portnoy’s Complaint,” died on Tuesday. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)
Portnoy’s Complaint, novel by Philip Roth, published in 1969.The book became a minor classic of Jewish American literature.This comic novel is structured as a confession to a psychiatrist by Alexander Portnoy, who relates the details of his adolescent obsession with masturbation and his domination by his overly possessive mother, Sophie.
Jul 23, 2010 · Along with Saul Bellow's Herzog, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint defined Jewish American literature in the 1960s. Roth's masterpiece takes place on the couch of a psychoanalyst, an appropriate jumping-off place for an insanely comical novel about the Jewish American experience.
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