![]() Indeed, for many years, “Portnoy’s Complaint” was banned in many public libraries due to the use of unpolished language and an explicit description of masturbation. Roth wrote the novel voiced as a stream of consciousness that many considered obscene to the point of being worthy of censorship. ![]() The book became a fast best-seller and a source of controversy that haunted Roth throughout his career and life as a novelist.Ī polarizing and confrontational book, “Portnoy’s Complaint” brought to the forefront the inner machinations of the mind of a character portraying the direct opposite of the idealized Jew in America. Philip Roth wrote several books before publishing his novel, “Portnoy’s Complaint,” which hit the book stores in 1969. “She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.” ![]()
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