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Book · 1969 · Fiction

Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth
Vintage International (Penguin Random House) · 289 pages
★ 6.1 editorial score

Alexander Portnoy lies on his analyst's couch and confesses everything: a Jewish son's rage at his mother and an appetite he cannot govern. Four hundred thousand copies sold in the first year.

Medium
Novel
Setting
New Jersey
Time
1969Depicts 20th century

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“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.”

Alfred Kinsey