Tag: portnoys-complaint

  • Boswell’s Complaint, Portnoy’s Complaint

    Boswell’s Complaint, Portnoy’s Complaint

    In 1969, American writer Philip Roth published his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint. It’s a tough read for a man who’s almost sixty (that’s me), but for a young man of nineteen (that was me back in 1984) – it was…awesome. It’s a psychiatrist’s chair-account of Alexander Portnoy’s struggle as a…