Philip Roth, Portnoy’s complaint

Type :

Book review

Pages :

3 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

05/17/2009

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

Introduction
The text under scrutiny: An extract of the confession of a man to his psychiatrist
The center of the text: The narrator
The narrator: An ambitious and an authoritative woman
The way the narrator decides to present her recollection
Conclusion

Abstract

The text under scrutiny presents us an extract of the confession of a man to his psychiatrist: he talks to him more precisely about his childhood, and the way his mother used to act with him during that period. What is interesting about this text is the manner the narrator presents his memory: our study will therefore focus on the way the upset speech of the narrator reveals the deep traumatism of a man confronted to his own past. We will first enlighten how the narrator and his memory can be seen as the mainspring of the text. We will then go on to explain the relations the narrator seems to have had with his mother, and in a third point, we will endeavour to show how this memory about his mother could have had consequential effects that show through his confession.