Author: Jonas Follonier
Jonas Follonier

JONAS FOLLONIER

Federal Palace correspondent for «L'Agefi», singer-songwriter Jonas Follonier is the founder and editor-in-chief of «Regard Libre».

«Portnoy and his complex»

«Portnoy and his complex»

Portnoy et son complexe«, the 1969 novel that earned American author Philip Roth his sulphurous reputation, is a must-read. The author had already published a collection of short stories ten years earlier, »Goodbye, Columbus«, which was not a success. Nevertheless, Roth's obsessive themes were already present, starting of course with Jewishness. Like all geniuses, Roth is obsessive. Imagine a Tarantino who wasn't obsessive, or a Proust, a Polnareff, a Flaubert or a Kubrick. And there's one obsession that runs through the whole of »Portnoy and His Complex«: sex.