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PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT

PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT

PHILIP ROTH

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Publisher:
VINTAGE
Year of publication:
1995
ISBN:
978-0-09-939901-8
Pages:
274
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Portnoy's Complaint, a long monologue narrated by a young Jewish man while in analysis, is prefaced by a definition of "Portnoy's Complaint" as a disorder in which "strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature."

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