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Seller: Deus ex Libris - Libreria Antiquaria, Chianciano Terme, SI, ItalyDeus ex Libris - Libreria Antiquaria
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PRIMA EDIZIONE ITALIANA. LEGATURA EDITORIALE ILLUSTRATA CON SOVRACCOPERTA ORIGINALE. VOLUME IN 8°, pp. 304. INTRODUZIONE DI CLAUDIO GORLIER, TRADUZIONE DALL'AMERICANO DI LETIZIA CIOTTI MILLER. "Lamento di Portnoy" (titolo originale Portnoy's Complaint) è un romanzo di Philip Roth pubblicato nel 1969. Nel 2025, l'editore Adelphi, nell'ambito della riedizione nel proprio catalogo delle opere dell'autore americano, ha alterato il titolo originario optando per l'accorciato Portnoy. Il romanzo è strutturato come un ininterrotto monologo del narratore, Alexander Portnoy, un ebreo americano, al suo psicanalista, il dottor Spielvogel, prima che quest'ultimo inizi la terapia prevista. Suddiviso in sette capitoli dai titoli alquanto originali (nella traduzione italiana, il secondo e il quarto si intitolano rispettivamente Seghe e Figomania), ha come filo conduttore l'alternanza dei piani temporali prodotta dalla rievocazione memoriale del protagonista-narratore: nevrotico, erotomane, morbosamente attaccato alla madre e alle tradizioni ebraiche, spesso peraltro dileggiate e contestate nei loro assurdi divieti, uomo di successo (è responsabile di un dipartimento dell'amministrazione di New York contro la discriminazione), eppure incapace di trovare un centro stabile e disperatamente alla ricerca di una moglie, una famiglia, dei figli. Da Newark a New York, dalla Grecia a Roma, fino in Israele, Portnoy si porta dietro le sue manie, i suoi tic, le sue idiosincrasie e le sue morbosità sessuali, alla disperata ricerca di una banale, ordinaria, normalità. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- LAMENTO DI PORTNOY
- Author
- ROTH PHILIP
- Publisher
- BOMPIANI, MILANO
- Publication year
- 1970
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- Italian
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Deus ex Libris - Libreria Antiquaria
Chianciano Terme, SI, Italy
AbeBooks seller since September 23, 2020
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