Word: gallimard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Portnoy took his complaint to a Paris civil court in an attempt to bar Gallimard, the publishing house, from selling any more copies until the hero's name is changed. Argued the publisher's lawyer: "There is no risk of confusion. Philip Roth's hero is a New York lawyer. Our adversary is a French garage owner. This hero is not odious or detestable. He is touching." Besides, the attorney added, "How can you expect an American writer to investigate whether somewhere abroad there is a living person with the name of his hero...