Portnoy's Complaint

Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is American writer

Trivia

• Gore Vidal, author of Myra Breckinridge (1968), quipped to Roth's second wife, Claire Bloom: "You have already had Portnoy's complaint . Do not involve yourself with Portnoy."
• The acceptance as fact of Sigmund Freud's various psychological theories (most of which have been abandoned by practicing psychiatrists) is the most dated aspect of Portnoy's Complaint.
• In a late 1990s interview, Roth called Freud "this great tragic poet, our Sophocles."

Following in the footsteps of Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint was in 1972 made into a film starring Richard Benjamin and Karen Black. The results were decidedly less successful than the first movie, with Leonard Maltin calling it a "cinematic massacre".

Related Topics:
Goodbye, Columbus - 1972 - Richard Benjamin - Karen Black - Leonard Maltin

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