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Portnoy's Complaint (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679756453)
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Philip Roth
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xThe 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 Portnoy.
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years "Deliciously funny . . . absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious . . . a brilliantly vivid reading experience"--The New York Times Book Review "Touching as well as hilariously lewd . . . Roth is vibrantly talented"--New York Review of Books 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's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift f? Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.
Author: Philip Roth
ISBN-10: 0679756450
ISBN-13: 9780679756453
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/20/1994
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/26/1994
Newsweek 08/11/2008 pg. 12
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 100
New York Times Book Review 03/16/2014 pg. 14
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years "Deliciously funny . . . absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious . . . a brilliantly vivid reading experience"--The New York Times Book Review "Touching as well as hilariously lewd . . . Roth is vibrantly talented"--New York Review of Books 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's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift f? Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.
Author: Philip Roth
ISBN-10: 0679756450
ISBN-13: 9780679756453
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/20/1994
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/26/1994
Newsweek 08/11/2008 pg. 12
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 100
New York Times Book Review 03/16/2014 pg. 14
By Philip Roth
xPHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004." Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.
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