![]() ![]() ![]() Until 1989, he was general editor of the Penguin book series Writers from the Other Europe, which he inaugurated in 1974 and which introduced the work of Bruno Schultz and Milan Kundera to an American audience. Awards-the most awarded US writer-see belowĪfter many years of teaching comparative literature-mostly at the University of Pennsylvania-Philip Roth retired from teaching as Distinguished Professor of Literature at Hunter College in 1992.Education-B.A., Bucknell University M.A.,.It was recently designated one of the hundred best books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library judges. Thirty years after it was first published, Portnoy's Complaint remains a classic of American literature, a tour de force of comic and carnal brilliance, and probably the funniest book about sex ever written. Portnoy's Complaint is the famously outrageous confession made to his analyst by Alexander Portnoy, the Huck Finn of Newark, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. ![]()
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