Nance - Portnovian dilemmas / Steven Milowitz - The Jew's complaint in recent American fiction : beyond Exodus and still in the wilderness / Alan Warren Friedman - Oedipal politics in Portnoy's complaint / Robert Forrey - The Alex perplex / Alan Cooper - The Jewish mother : comedy and controversy in American popular culture / Martha A.

Girgus - Rebellion against Jewishness : Portnoy's complaint / Helge Normann Nilsen - Good girls and boys gone bad / Judith Paterson Jones and Guinevera A. Portnoy's prayer : Philip Roth and the American unconscious / Sam B. On Portnoy's complaint / George Plimpton and Philip Roth - Philip Roth's psychoanalysts / Jeffrey Berman - In the American grain (Portnoy's complaint) / Bernard F. Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index

Lauded for its narrative technique, its insight into psychoanalysis, and the sheer audaciousness of its author, Portnoy's Complaint became an embattled classic, whose stature is still debated today. Roth was an established author before Portnoy’s Complaint was published his first book, Goodbye, Columbus, won the 1960 National Book Award. Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, published in 1969, is the story of Jewish American bachelor Alex Portnoy, as told in a long monologue, apparently to a therapist. Alexander Portnoy's struggle to balance intellectual well-meaning and a wide-ranging libido against Jewish upbringing in a gentile nation is captured in a series of psychoanalytic sessions with an off-stage Dr.

'Both an outrageous capstone to America's sexual revolution and an expose of Jewish-American angst, Portnoy's Complaint inspired readers to vitriol and ecstasy upon its publication in 1969.

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