Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth

Alexander Portnoy delivers an extended monologue to his psychoanalyst about his Jewish upbringing in Newark, his overbearing mother, and his obsessive sexuality. Roth's comic novel was banned in Australia in 1969 for its explicit sexual content, banned in Lebanon for its pro-Israel elements, and condemned in Norway, making it one of the most controversially received American novels of the 1960s.