by Philip Roth · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483466308
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«El mal de Portnoy» is the psychological novel by Philip Roth, published by Debolsillo in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is the monologue of Alexander Portnoy, a young Jewish man who bares himself before his psychoanalyst: his upbringing, his moral contradictions, and his intense sex life. The title refers to a supposed disorder in which ethical impulses clash with unbridled desire, all told with acerbic humour and uncomfortable honesty.
Translated by Ramón Buenaventura from the original English Portnoy's Complaint, it was published in 2008 in the Contemporánea collection by Debolsillo.
For adult readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy psychological satire, interior monologue, and provocative humour.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
