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Danehy then added his complaint against "an organization," also unnamed, whose campaign signs, with "certain names on the bottom," which he did not identify, were being pasted on signposts and street lamps throughout the city...
...trilogy is Roth's most complex and structurally satisfying work. It is a disciplined string ensemble compared with Portnoy's Complaint, which had the primal power of a high school band. Yet Zuckerman and Portnoy have close ties. Both star in comedies of the unconscious, burlesques of psychoanalytic processes whose irreverence and shocking explicitness challenge the pieties that protect hidden feelings. "Ill tell you your calling," screams Zuckerman at Critic Appel, "President of the Rabbinical Society for the Suppression of Laughter in the Interest of Loftier Values! Minister of the Official Style for Jewish Books Other than...
...more suitably phrased for literary debate, in Reading Myself and Others (1975). In this collection of essays and interviews he answered his critics, among them Irving Howe. In the pages of Commentary, the monthly magazine of the American Jewish Committee, Howe rendered the solemn judgment that Portnoy's Complaint degraded American Jews. Roth saw the roots of such attacks in history. Wrote the embattled author: "He [the Jew] is not expected to make a spectacle of himself, either by shooting off his mouth or shooting off his semen, and certainly not by shooting off his mouth about shooting...
...witless complain that humor is impossible to write in an age when headlines are more absurd than the products of imagination. Richler's contemporary entries offer hilarious refutation. Excerpts from Stanley Elkin's The Dick Gibson Show and Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint belong on the shelf with Rabelais and Swift. Woody Allen's The Kugelmass Episode stands as a classic. In it, a professor of humanities is propelled backward in time to the arms of Madame Bovary and the pages of a remedial Spanish textbook: "He was running for his life over...
...welcome volume. What does not work is a steady insistence that humorists are a devalued species. In fact they enjoy unique privileges: they can mock the powerful, conceal anguish with a joke and enjoy an afterlife in the pages of anthologies. Small wonder that no one takes their complaint seriously. They themselves have made it laughable...