Word: roth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth. This frenzied monologue by a sex-obsessed Jewish bachelor on a psychiatrist's couch becomes a comic novel about the absurdly painful wounds created by guilt and puritanism...
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth, is a comic sex novel of the absurd, told in the form of a frenzied monologue by a 33-year-old Jewish bachelor on his psychiatrist's couch...
FICTION 1. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (2 last week) 2. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (1) 3. Airport, Hailey (3) 4. A Small Town in Germany, le Carré (4) 5. Force 10 from Navarone, MacLean (5) 6. Preserve and Protect, Drury (7) 7. The First Circle, Solzhenitsyn (9) 8. A World of Profit, Auchincloss (8) 9. The Hurricane Years, Hawley 10. The Voyeur, Sutton...
...have genes and cultural traits acquired somewhere else than in America necessitates a fence-straddling approach to national identity. Norman Mailer, among others, has tried to speak to the American side of us, i.e., to the side that we have acquired since getting off the boat. Philip Roth, on the other hand, has attempted to bring us back to the boat while we sit, stagnant, in America and has superbly evoked our confusion about cultural identity...
...fusion remains necessary, not only if Mailer or Roth would like to become the next "great American writer," but also because we all are in pursuit of roots and future at the same time. So the radical interpretation of history, whether in arts or in archives, must save us from solipsism at the same time as it delivers us from the social scientists...