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Portnoy's Complaint is a 1969 American novel by Philip Roth. 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.
Nov 10, 2023 · Last Updated November 10, 2023. Portnoy's Complaint is a highly controversial dark comedy set in the transformative 1960s. Written by Philip Roth in 1969, the novel reflects changing views on...
Sep 7, 2009 · So despite reaching 40, that milestone of respectability, Portnoy's Complaint is still a masterclass in how to get beneath the skin of sexuality. Has any other novel managed it quite so well?
Sep 20, 1994 · 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.
- Philip Roth
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.
Feb 4, 2019 · Portnoy’s Complaint aimed to prove liberalism’s largest, most precious moral claim, that all orthodoxy is suspect, inherently wrong; that precisely because language and experience are relative, the principle of tolerance must be absolute.
Apr 13, 2011 · Portnoy's Complaint. Philip Roth. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Apr 13, 2011 - Fiction - 304 pages. The groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral...
