Of what? Well, that is the novel, so the answer depends Columbia Law School occupation: Assistant Commissionerįor the City of New York Commission on Human Opportunity marital status: single religion: "Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew!" Portnoy's problem? Being a Jew he is a victim. The patient/monologist here is Alexander Portnoy-born: 1933 in Jersey City, N.J., to Jake and Sophie Portnoy sister: Hannah I.Q.: 158 education: B.A. The form of a marathon pre-psychoanalytic monologue-perhaps four or five of those preliminary sessions (strung end to end) in which the patient describes what's bothering him and sketches in his history, while the analyst listens N the unlikely event that you haven't heard, Philip Roth's third novel and fourth book, "Portnoy's Complaint," takes FebruBooks of the Times By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jew Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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