by Philip Roth · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429742398
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Portnoy's Complaint is a novel by Philip Roth, published in 1969. The story follows Alexander Portnoy, a young Jewish American who struggles with his sexual desires and his family's expectations. Through psychoanalysis sessions, Portnoy explores his obsessions and internal conflicts, offering a satirical and provocative view of Jewish identity and sexuality in American society.
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.
