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9780300151909

Promiscuous; "Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300151909

  • ISBN10:

    030015190X

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2012-04-19
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

The publication of Portnoy's Complaintin 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and shocked legions of readerssome delighted, others appalled. Portnoy and other main characters became instant archetypes, and Roth himself became a touchstone for conflicting attitudes toward sexual liberation, Jewish power, political correctness, Freudian language, and bourgeois disgust. What about this book inspired Richard Lacayo of Timeto describe it as "a literary instance of shock and awe," and the Modern Library to list it among the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century? Bernard Avishai offers a witty exploration of Roth's satiric masterpiece, based on the prolific novelist's own writings, teaching notes, and personal interviews. In addition to discussing the book's timing, rhetorical gambit, and sheer virtuousity, Avishai includes a chapter on the Jewish community's outrage over the book and how Roth survived it, and another on the author's scorching treatment of psychoanalysis. Avishai shows that Roth's irreverent novel left us questioning who, or what, was the object of the satire. Hilariously, it proved the serious ways we construct fictions about ourselves and others.

Author Biography

Bernard Avishai is adjunct professor of business at Hebrew University and author of three books, most recently, The Hebrew Republic, and dozens of articles for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, Harvard Business Review, and other publications. He divides his time between Jerusalem and Wilmot, NH.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Teaching Notesp. 1
A Novel in the Form of a Confession: The Enigma of Portnoy, Who is Not Rothp. 25
Really Icky: Portnoy as Satiristp. 59
"The Best Kind": Portnoy as the Object of Satirep. 91
Punch Line: Psychoanalysis as the Object of Satirep. 159
Conclusion you are Not Truep. 199
Notesp. 213
Acknowledgmentsp. 217
Indexp. 221
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