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 sexuality, Jewish identity, and ...

Alexander Portnoy. Alexander Portnoy is a 33-year-old Jewish man from Newark, New Jersey, who decides to go to therapy for his issues with sex addiction, impotence, and a lack of self …

Some might argue that it is irrelevant whether Sophie Portnoy or her son Alex are associated with terms like "pornography," "masturbation," "castration," or "pornography"; they emerge as ...

In Portnoy's Complaint, Roth inverts this idea, so that Alex perceives his situation as inherently comic and, therefore, feels constrained to be frivolous, in harmony with the lack of dignity of ...

1996年11月3日 · Alex Portnoy, described as New York City's Assistant Commissioner of Human Opportunity (204), has become a transgressive monologist impelled toward narratives of …

Now it may be precisely because the contents of the Freudian unconscious are few, simple, and boring that it took me about a nanosecond to see that someone's unconscious—Sophie …

Portnoy's Complaint blends fact and fiction to reveal the intricacies of daily life in vivid detail. As a masterful use of the new linguistic freedom of the 1960s, the novel serves as a lively ...

Roth, Philip 1933– An American novelist and short story writer, Roth is the author of Portnoy's Complaint, The Breast, and The Great American Novel. (See also Contemporary Authors, …

It might be argued that too much depends on the reader's memories of Alex Portnoy and the furor over his complaint. The trilogy doesn't tell us what kind of writer Zuckerman is; ...

Portnoy's Complaint ended on the couch, with the psychiatrist remarking to Alex Portnoy, "Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?" The Anatomy Lesson ends with Nathan Zuckerman, …