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 fur 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. (19941121)
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Along with Saul Bellow's Herzog, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint 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--Goodbye, Columbus and When She Was Good among them, but it is perhaps Portnoy's Complaint for which he is best known.
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"Philip Roth's gift for fantasy, his superb dialogue, his ability to evoke places and atmospheres, makes Portnoy's Complaint at once hilariously, scandalously funny and deeply moving" (Philip French Financial Times )
"Alexander Portnoy is a great comic character. He is going to be for many readers what his mother was for him: The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met" (Julian Mitchell New Statesman )
"A hysterically funny monologue which has already added a new prototype to American literature... Anyone who can recall anything of the awesome mystery and humiliating farce of growing up will find this book compulsive reading. And it is blessedly, extremely funny" (Tony Tanner Spectator )
"If it doesn't make you laugh, you may have lost your sense of humour" (Week )
"Scabrous language and fantastic comic energy" (Jewish Renaissance )
"Alexander Portnoy is a great comic character. He is going to be for many readers what his mother was for him: The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met" (Julian Mitchell New Statesman )
"A hysterically funny monologue which has already added a new prototype to American literature... Anyone who can recall anything of the awesome mystery and humiliating farce of growing up will find this book compulsive reading. And it is blessedly, extremely funny" (Tony Tanner Spectator )
"If it doesn't make you laugh, you may have lost your sense of humour" (Week )
"Scabrous language and fantastic comic energy" (Jewish Renaissance )
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After reading PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, I find myself scrambling to recall whether I have ever read another American novel anywhere near as hysterically funny. Maybe Tom Robbins's SKINNY LEGS AND ALL is in the same ballpark (and I've yet to read CATCH-22) but Roth simply had my head spinning while I read this book. My jaw is still on the floor, in fact.
Esoterically, this book is one long rant about the joys and (more heavily) the anguishes of growing up Jewish in America in the forties and fifties. It's 1966 and successful civil servant Alexander Portnoy is on the psychiatrist's couch trying to get out all his Oedipal, inferiority, and sexual fetish complexes.
That infamous masturbation scene in the movie AMERICAN PIE? A direct descendent of Mrs. Portnoy's piece of liver!
More deeply, if you can stand it, this book seriously examines the struggle of growing up with smothering parents: Alex's both put him on a pedestal and criticize everything he does. He's unmarried at thirty-three in part because of all the neuroses his parents have bestowed in him--so why doesn't he get married and have children already? Alex lets us know in pornographic detail why. Speaking of pornographic detail, Alex spends plenty of time on his ultimately doomed affairs with (mostly Protestant) women. Most of his anger at growing up Jewish in a Christian-dominated society he takes out on these "shikses"--variously called Pumpkin, the Pilgrim and the Monkey--this is not a politically correct book from the feminist perspective. It does, however, raise serious questions about what it means to be a human being, as opposed to just a hyphenated-American.
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT is brash, profane and wonderful. It is certainly not for the faint-hearted or those with what were once considered "polite sensibilities." But it is a very moral book in it's own way. Portnoy knows he's no hero, and Roth doesn't portray him as such--in some ways the book is one big joke. Every effective joke has its kernel of truth; Roth's have the whole can of corn.
I never expected a novel that is one long rant to inspire a review that is one long rave, but there it is.
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"Portnoy's Complaint" hat mich endgültig zum Roth-Fan gemacht. Mit "American Pastoral" hatte ich noch meine Schwierigkeiten, "The human stain" hat mich sehr gefesselt, "Portnoy's..." bewegt mich dazu, mehr von Roth zu lesen. Für mich sind die Stärke lebendige, true-to-life Charaktere, die durch das Buch hindurch glaubhaft bleiben - auch wenn sie aus dem Rahmen fallen. Das hat Saft, Kraft, Liebe, Erotik und Tiefgang. Alexander Portnoy erzählt seine Kindheit und Adoleszenz in einer jüdischen Familie in New Jersey - vor allem die jüdische Mama prägt seine späteren Verhaltensweisen. Aber keine Angst: zuviel Küchenpsychologie kommt nicht vor, man kann das Buch auch frei von Ödipus oder sonstigen Komplexen belastet (sei es literarisch oder real) lesen. Und das empfehle ich auch: Lesen!
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I started reading Portnoy's complaint some time last year and I found it difficult.. I could only read it in little bits, the story is packed with humorous crude snippets of Jewish life ,and overloads your senses with exaggerated caricature..When I finally finished it last week, I guess I ended up liking the book..as a definitive book about Jewish American culture of the period, I think it is sadly lacking..Funny in parts, outrageously lewd throughout, some of the family scenes read like my own Jewish childhood in London..Either I missed the profound statement behind the book or there isn't one really..not focussed enough for my liking, but definitely interesing reading.
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Passt alles
Zustand entspricht meinen Erwartungen, Lieferung schnell und unproblematisch. Zum Lesen hatte ich noch keine Zeit, was ich bis jetzt gelesen habe ist unterhaltsam und ich warte auf... Lesen Sie weiter...
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Gutes Buch, gute Kindle Edition
Hier ein paar Gedanken zu der Kindle Edition von Pornoy's Complaint:
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Vor 5 Monaten von ash-williams veröffentlicht
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Monolog für den der's mag
Die sehr positiven Bewertungen des Buchs haben mich dazu bewegt, es als ersten Einstieg in Philip Roth zu lesen. Dafür war es aber definitiv nicht das Richtige. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Juni 2006 von Birdonawire
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gut geschrieben
Der Titel des Buches ist treffend gewählt, denn es handelt sich bei Portnoy's complaint wirklich um eine Schimpftirade, die in ihrer Bissigkeit sehr humorvoll, teils aber auch... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Januar 2004 von youdiss
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Biting and lewd, yet unquestionably brilliant.
I had heard that Roth's prose often reminds readers of JD Salinger, and that Portnoy is merely a Jewish version of Catcher in the Rye. Well...yes and no. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juni 2000 von Chris Green
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A LIVERISH DISH
Notwithstanding the continuous complicate output of Roth's works, I firmly believe this short bestselling novel to be his masterpiece. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juni 2000 von Hermes Trismegistus
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Very clever but with the main character is difficult to like
Okay, Philip Roth can write. And here he writes very well, fluidly, brilliantly. My main problem with the book though, is just how dispicable the main character Alex is. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Juni 2000 von Aviva Dream
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Dena's Complaint
I haven't read such a disappointing book in my life (this year so far)! It started off interesting, funny, meaningful - I thought he'd go somewhere with it. Off the deep-end? Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Juni 2000 von belladena
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Vulgar as hell, but you've got to love it.
Great work.
Veröffentlicht am 22. April 2000 von "rockermvp2000"
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Lewd, Crude and Dangerous to Know
This is probably the most disgusting book I've ever read. I'm not prudish or easily shocked by what I read, but this was certainly difficult to take. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. April 2000 von Peter Marcus
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