false 43945 32 Along with Saul Bellow's <i>Herzog</i>, Philip Roth's <i>Portnoy's Complaint</i> 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. Roth has written several great books--<i>Goodbye, Columbus</i> and <i>When She Was Good</i> among them, but it is perhaps <i>Portnoy's Complaint</i> for which he is best known. 911489 1969 Portnoy's Complaint total:6022|5:1467|4:2141|3:1625|2:555|1:234| 6022 22118 7861 545 4 18 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 11:15:48 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 06:55:50 -0800 2009
I've heard (and no doubt you've heard) all about the controversy surrounding this book. Is Roth, himself, anti-semitic? I don...more...]]> 2 10 false false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed May 07 06:08:25 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 09 17:32:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 19 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 04:46:19 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 08:40:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 5 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 06:02:28 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 17:49:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Fri Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 11:10:28 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 11:46:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 10:32:46 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 21:18:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 12 10:20:10 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 17:42:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 10:38:05 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 14:04:14 -0800 2009 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 07:53:08 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 08:33:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 16:09:01 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 02:48:16 -0800 2008
I loved how his chi...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Nov 30 22:58:57 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 16:10:24 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Sep 07 12:36:24 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 10:23:02 -0700 2007
This was his first book to really be noticed. It is the confess...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 10:14:41 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 11:52:27 -0700 2007 Portnoy's Complaint is exactly that; the long first person complaint of an Alexander Portnoy, Port-Noir to goys, of how his Jewish upbringing has paralyzed him.

At 33 years of age Alex is still hopelessly devoted to jerking off and other lewd sexual acts. Much to the chagrin of his...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 13:23:52 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 17:12:40 -0800 2008
There's a lot to recommend Roth as a writer and I think he's fully in control of what he's doing I just wish he were doing something else blah blah. This book is a 300-page monologue by a chara...more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 08:24:30 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 22:53:39 -0700 2008

15.10.08

Persians, Greeks, now Jews. First person narrative, Portnoy's confessions to his therapist...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 19 19:44:01 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 19:48:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Sep 13 09:23:24 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 09:40:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 16:56:24 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 17:10:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jun 11 07:25:26 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 07:26:06 -0700 2009
Forty years after The Well of Loneliness shocked Britain, Philip Roth unleashed Portnoy, the man who put the Id in Yid. Portnoy's Complaint is a crazy romp through the protagonist's extraordinary love life as he attempts to seek closure with his tyrannical mother.
...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed May 06 11:05:10 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 10:15:17 -0700 2009 more...]]>