Promiscuous
Subtitle: Portnoy's complaint and our doomed pursuit of happiness
By: Bernard Avishai
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300151909
Subjects: Jews in literature; History and criticism; American Satire
Other titles: Portnoy's complaint and our doomed pursuit of happiness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue, Teaching notes; title: A novel in the form of a confession : the enigma of Portnoy, who is not Roth; title: Really icky : Portnoy as satirist; title: "The best kind" : Portnoy as the object of satire; title: Punch line : psychoanalysis as the object of satire; title: Conclusion, You are not true.