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• W1694025551 abstract "Bernard Avishai. Promiscuous: Portnoy's Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness. Yale UP, 2012. 240 pp. $25In Promiscuous, Bernard Avishai casts himself as both Philip Roth's and Alex- ander Portnoy's sidekicker, to borrow a phrase from title character's Croat paramour in Roth's 1995 novel, Sabbath's Theater (9). Avishai also introduces himself as voice of his (and my) which came of age just as Portnoy's Complaint (1969)-Roth's third novel-spurted count- less seeds of controversy into America's conversation. Avishai views Portnoy as American literature's Woodstock (31) and, like Woodstock, as a deeply uncynical expression of love (196); as climax of a liberation movement (209); as a generation's defining moment, and as a milestone of cultural insurgency (14). This perennially popular succes de scandale, Avis- hai argues, continues to confront us with unfinished business(21). Or perhaps since Roth wrote a novel instead of renting a farm, Goethe's widely and avidly read The Sorrows of Young Werther (Coetzee) might make for a more apt comparison. This 1770 novel also shaped time and became a universal compass point, a claim Avishai repeatedly makes for Portnoy (42, 68). Goethe's hero became representative of [his] generation, pathetic face of European Romanticism's und Drang movement (Coetzee), which Avishai calls to mind in describing Portnoy as an exploration of the Drang before Sturm (11).Surprisingly from a scholar of political economy (20), Avishai is given to axiomatic superlatives, like his declaration of Portnoy's iconic status as the sixties most iconoclastic work (14). Notwithstanding Avishai's intellectual brio, this tone sometimes confounds questions about whether Avishai is argu- ing for a view of Portnoy as exceptional or as representative. This confusion mirrors Avishai's ambivalence over whether to cast himself as Portnoy's critic or as Roth's confidante. He tantalizes readers with references to banter and counsel he and Roth shared, but turns miserly about reporting these exchanges. For example, Avishai quotes generously from 1999 Bard Col- lege teaching notes Roth furnished him (8-9, 14-17, 73, 80-81), but when recalling how Roth once told me he found end of Portnoy its weak- est part (141), Avishai only paraphrases. Since this observation leads to an account of a lunch Avishai arranged between Roth and former Likkud prime minister, Ehud Olmert, in which Olmert accused Roth of representing inauthentic American Jew, it was frustrating to hear what Olmert actu- ally said but to learn only, via paraphrase, what Roth talked about.When Avishai does quote Roth directly, his accuracy becomes question- able-as in his recollection that Roth told him, was born month [FDR] was (156). Surely Roth would have said inaugurated (in March 1933) not elected (in November 1932). Likewise, Avishai ought to know that in I Married a Communist (1998), Murray Ringold is not narrator's uncle (210).The scholarly limitations of Promiscuous extend beyond these venial slips. Sometimes Avishai seems unaware that his insights have become common- places rather than news. Examples include his account of Roth's insurrectional ribaldry (63), his moves to push-and ultimately to tear-Joyce's sexual- candor envelope (5, 40; Bloom 68-71) and Avishai's epiphany (Alas!) about how Roth deflates imperious reductionist claims for explanatory supremacy of social science, particularly psychoanalysis (16, 190-93, 205-206; Bloom 106). Avishai needlessly refights battles with long-dead and discredited Portnoy-bashers, which he admits were won a generation ago (146), citing for example canard that readers rejected decades ago-thanks largely to Roth's own efforts-the anti-aesthetic insistence confusing Roth with Port- noy (53). …" @default.
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• W1694025551 title "Promiscuous: Portnoy's Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness by Bernard Avishai (review)" @default.
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