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Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

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Name: Philip Roth
Birth Date: 1933
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Philip Roth
1241 words, approx. 4.1 pages
The American author Philip Roth (born 1933) used his Jewish upbringing and his college days for the basis of many of his novels and other works. Roth used his experiences in growing up in the Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey, and his days as a col...
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Biography of Philip (Milton) Roth
21912 words, approx. 73 pages
[This entry was updated by S. Lillian Kremer (Kansas State University) from her entry in DLB 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series, pp. 202-234.] A major writer of twentieth-century American literature, Philip Roth has produced an impr...
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Biography of Philip Roth
12714 words, approx. 42.4 pages
In 1973, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the book, but it also may be an answer to critics who keep waiting for him...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Portnoy's Complaint Information
1,161 words, approx. 4 pages
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is American writer Philip Roth's most popular novel, with many of its characteristics (comedic prose; themes of sexual desire and sexual frustration; a self-conscious literariness) having gone on to become Roth trademarks....


News and Journals
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On Wall Street
Are Phone Complaints Complaints?
04/01/2001: 668 words, approx. 2 pages
The answer depends on your regulator, but oral and written complaints often are equivalent. Q If a customer calls to complain about something over the phone, but does not put the complaint in writing, is that considered a customer complaint for reporting purposes?...
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Video Store
Customer Complaints
12/05/1993: 637 words, approx. 2 pages
JUST AS IN PAST SURVEYS, the comparison between customers who complain while standing in line on Friday and Saturday nights and the customers who complain when given the chance to do so anonymously is surprising. In this year's survey, the results are similar...
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AP News
Philip Roth wins 1st ever Bellow prize
4/1/2007: 482 words, approx. 2 pages
Literary awards are old news for Philip Roth, but his latest honor is truly special: The first ever PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, a $40,000 prize named for the late Nobel laureate and one of Roth's closest friends and literary heroes."To my...
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AP News
Roth says farewell to fictional hero
9/27/2007: 868 words, approx. 3 pages
Philip Roth says he's done with Nathan Zuckerman. But is Nathan done with Philip Roth? "Goodbye, Nathan Zuckerman," the headline from Time magazine reads. Roth, the story declares, "has exhausted the possibilities of his character," the fictional adventurer of "The Ghost Writer," "The Anatomy Lesson"...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David Brauner
8,266 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Brauner explores the comedic aspects of Portnoy's Complaint, contending that the novel is based on the unresolved tension between Roth's impulse “to treat psychoanalysis comically, and to treat comedy psychoanalytically.”


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