by Philip Roth · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432228230
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«El mal de Portnoy» is the novel by Philip Roth published by Seix Barral in paperback, with 312 pages, in Spanish.
Alexander Portnoy reviews his life on his psychoanalyst's couch: a confession in which sexual desire clashes with a very strict moral upbringing. The novel takes the form of a monologue full of humor, irony and self-criticism, and portrays his childhood in a traditional Jewish family and his tension with the American dream.
«El mal de Portnoy» was originally published in 1969 as «Portnoy's Complaint»; the translation is by Ramón Buenaventura and this Spanish edition appeared in 2007.
For readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate acid humor; it treats sexuality explicitly and is aimed at an adult audience.
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.
