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    • Tutti se lo ricordano per la scena della masturbazione con il pezzo di fegato destinato alla cena. E' praticamente i dolori del giovane Werther ebreo, e in alcuni punti è davvero esilarante. Un anticipo di quello che sarebbe stato il leit-motiv del Woody Allen degli anni '70.

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  • Giulia Blasi said on Jun 29, 2007 about the Paperback edition
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    • l'ho sentito molto

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  • Lorenzo (bezdomnyj82) said on May 29, 2007
    • Questo è Roth prima della cura, quando la sua scrittura, pur senza perdere il suo wit e la sua immediatezza, riusciva a dipanarsi nelle pieghe più profonde di una storia.
      Per noi Italiani, "Portnoy's complaint" è un vero e proprio corso accelerato di geografia. Primo, aiuta a capire che cosa c' ... Continue

      Questo è Roth prima della cura, quando la sua scrittura, pur senza perdere il suo wit e la sua immediatezza, riusciva a dipanarsi nelle pieghe più profonde di una storia.
      Per noi Italiani, "Portnoy's complaint" è un vero e proprio corso accelerato di geografia. Primo, aiuta a capire che cosa c'è in comune tra la cultura Yiddish e quella Italiana, ovvero la Mamma. Ovvero, perché siamo entrambi europei.
      Secondo, ci fa capire che, se a fondamento del nostro rapporto con l'analisi avessimo Portnoy, saremmo americani, invece abbiamo La coscienza di Zeno, e quindi siamo europei.

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  • fuzzybabel said on May 30, 2009 about the Hardcover edition
    • Witty, sarcastic, humorous Roth!

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  • Lia said on Jan 20, 2009 | 1 feedback
    • I love Roth, but this is not one of my favorites. Pretty tedious, really, with only a few genuinely interesting moments. I guess I see why this was a big deal in the early seventies, but it doesn't really hold up well.

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  • Albion said on May 29, 2007 about the Paperback edition| 1 feedback

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Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spievogel says: "Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration." (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift fur Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.

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Paperback 288 Pages
ISBN-10: 0099399016
ISBN-13: 9780099399018
Publisher: Vintage
Pub date: Oct 06, 2005
Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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