03751nam 2200709Ia 450 991095477990332120200520144314.09786613601094978128057149712805714979780300178111030017811510.12987/9780300178111(CKB)2670000000184067(StDuBDS)AH24487054(SSID)ssj0000647303(PQKBManifestationID)11434966(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647303(PQKBWorkID)10593594(PQKB)10861126(MiAaPQ)EBC3420841(DE-B1597)485968(OCoLC)793206893(DE-B1597)9780300178111(Au-PeEL)EBL3420841(CaPaEBR)ebr10551239(CaONFJC)MIL360109(OCoLC)923598152(PPN)256708789(Perlego)1089785(EXLCZ)99267000000018406720111011d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrPromiscuous Portnoy's complaint and our doomed pursuit of happiness /Bernard Avishai1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20121 online resource (224 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780300151909 030015190X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Prologue Teaching Notes --1. A Novel in the Form of a Confession The Enigma of Portnoy, Who Is Not Roth --2. Really Icky Portnoy as Satirist --3. "The Best Kind": Portnoy as the Object of Satire --4. Punch Line: Psychoanalysis as the Object of Satire --Conclusion You Are Not True --Notes --Acknowledgments --IndexThe publication of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and shocked legions of readers-some 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 Time to 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.Portnoy's complaint and our doomed pursuit of happinessSatire, AmericanHistory and criticismJews in literatureSatire, AmericanHistory and criticism.Jews in literature.813/.54Avishai Bernard734640Lebowitz Brian E1807142MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954779903321Promiscuous4356708UNINA