Jerkin’ the gherkin: Philip Roth’s hands-on humor
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.5.9.117-120Keywords:
Jewish literature, Sex in literature, Humor, American literatureAbstract
Sex, outrage, shock, and satiric humor have become Philip Roth's trademark, which this essay discusses in relation to ten of his novels, from Portnoy's Complaint (1969) to Nemesis
(2010).
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KAKUTANI, Michiko. The Dying Animal: A Man Adrift, Living on Sexual Memories. The New York Times, May 8, 2001. Available at
MAILER, Norman. Gender, Narcissism, Masturbation. The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing. New York: Random House, 2003. p. 131-137.
ROTH, Philip. Portnoy’s Complaint. New York: Bantam, 1969/1970.
ROTH, Philip. The Counterlife. New York: Penguin, 1986.
ROTH, Philip. I Married a Communist. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
ROTH, Philip. The Human Stain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
ROTH, Philip. The Dying Animal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
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ROTH, Philip. Indignation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
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ROTH, Philip. Nemesis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010.
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