Lamento di Portnoy

Portnoy's Complaint was my first husband's favorite book, and he used to quote from it all the time. When we got divorced (it wasn't amicable), my lawyer asked how I'd feel about using that fact in court. I was strongly tempted but told him after careful consideration that it was below the belt. As i Leggi tutto

3.5 ależ to szalona książka

Updated May 22, 2018: R.I.P. Philip Roth. Author of some of the defining works of the late 20th century (and even some of the early 21st). What a magnificent second act you had... and what a legacy you leave behind. ***21 Random Thoughts After Reading Philip Roth’s Classic Portnoy’s Complaint 46 Yea Leggi tutto

Cînd Philip Roth a trimis la tipar Complexul lui Portnoy , șansa lui de a primi premiul Nobel a devenit egală cu zero. Cartea a stîrnit un scandal uriaș. Au protestat puritanii, indivizii lipsiți de umor și specialiștii în simbolismul Cabbalei. „Aceasta este cartea pentru care s-au rugat toți anti-se Leggi tutto

Some spend their young years learning and some spend their young years masturbating. Well, maybe it’s some sort of rehearsing as well. “Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them – because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad day Leggi tutto

This is the book that made Philip Roth both famous and scandalous. Portnoy is a mother-obsessed sexual maniac and actually quite hilarious. Who else would have had his character masturbating with a cow liver other than the author of the equally darkly humorous Sabbath's Theater? This book and the re Leggi tutto