![]() Roth relished the “hate” the work attracted. His own favourite among his novels was Sabbath’s Theatre (1995), which revisited the shock territory of Portnoy when its priapic puppeteer, protagonist Mickey Sabbath, masturbates into his dead lover’s grave. ![]() ![]() The New York Times Book Review Touching as well as. Roth took inspiration from Nikolai Gogol’s surreal short story “The Nose” for his novella The Breast in 1972 – about a man who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a 155-pound tit – and channelled his concerns through a series of novels starring his fictional alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, beginning with The Ghost Writer in 1979. The book that is being blown up by all of this puffing is not so much volatile as it is intense, probing, incisive. Deliciously funny.absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious.a brilliantly vivid reading experience. The novel’s impact was nevertheless huge and its author’s fame grew throughout the 1970s. Portnoy himself proclaims that, “through f***ing I will discover America”. ![]() Bernard Avishai’s 2012 book Promiscuous has more recently argued that Roth’s novel deserves to be remembered as an assault on “bourgeois liberty” as radical as Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1953), an attack on the American middle-class rather than on Jews as “poster-children for. ![]()
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