Promiscuous
"Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness
1st Edition
Published on 24. April 2012
224 pages
978-0-300-17811-1 (ISBN)
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Bernard Avishai is adjunct professor of business at Hebrew University and author of three books, most recently, The Hebrew Republic, and dozens of articles for The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Harper's, Harvard Business Review, and other publications. He divides his time between Jerusalem and Wilmot, NH.
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Bernard Avishai is adjunct professor of business at Hebrew University and author of three books, most recently, The Hebrew Republic, and dozens of articles for The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Harper's, Harvard Business Review, and other publications. He divides his time between Jerusalem and Wilmot, NH.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- PROLOGUE: Teaching Notes
- ONE: A Novel in the Form of a Confession: The Enigma of Portnoy, Who Is Not Roth
- TWO: Really Icky: Portnoy as Satirist
- THREE: "The Best Kind": Portnoy as the Object of Satire
- FOUR: Punch Line: Psychoanalysis as the Object of Satire
- CONCLUSION: You Are Not True
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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