Portnoy's Complaint (complete Works by Philip Roth)
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"American Library" Top 100 of the 20th Century, "Time" Magazine's Top 100 from 1923 to 2005, and a phenomenon-level best-selling work that has surpassed "The Godfather" in sales. "Portnoy's Complaint" is Philip Roth's third novel and a topical work. When it was released in 1969, it caused a sensation and has been on the best-seller list for a long time. Its sales volume even exceeded that of "The Godfather" published in the same year. Later, he was selected into the "American Library" Top 100 of the 20th Century and "Time" magazine's Top 100 from 1923 to 2005. Some commentators said that the novel, together with Saul Bellow's "Herzog", defined American Jewish literature in the 1960s. The story takes place in the psychiatrist Spielvogel's recliner. The protagonist Portnoy is suffering from neurosis. He finds the psychiatrist Spielvogel and confides to him the difficulties he has faced since childhood: his father's expectation for his son to succeed, his mother's autocratic doting, and the troubles of Jewish identity... Behind the bold and almost absurd confession is the inner moral anxiety of his generation of American Jewish youth. It is the conflict and imbalance between the traditional Jewish moral consciousness and the sense of freedom in American society in the 1960s, as well as the survival anxiety of American Jews in contemporary American society.
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