by Philip Roth · Bruguera, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402073693
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«El lamento de Portnoy» is the novel by Philip Roth translated by Adolfo Martín, published by Bruguera in hardcover (253 pages, in Spanish).
Alexander Portnoy recounts in his psychoanalysis sessions his upbringing in a middle-class Jewish home in New Jersey, his sexual awakening, and his problematic relationships with women. His monologue offers an ironic and self-critical view of Jewish customs and psychology, and of the crumbling of the American dream.
Published in 1980, with a translation by Adolfo Martín of the original Portnoy's Complaint (1969). It corresponds to number 32 of the Bruguera Universal Literature Collection.
For readers of twentieth-century American fiction interested in social satire and the portrayal of Jewish life in the United States.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
