{"id":17659,"date":"2018-11-11T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T10:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=17659"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:39:19","slug":"portnoy-et-son-complexe-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/portnoy-et-son-complexe-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abPortnoy and his complex\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Un petit livre incontournable que <i>Portnoy and his complex<\/i>, roman de 1969 ayant valu \u00e0 l\u2019Am\u00e9ricain Philip Roth sa sulfureuse notori\u00e9t\u00e9. L\u2019auteur avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 publi\u00e9 un recueil de nouvelles dix ans plus t\u00f4t, <i>Goodbye, Columbus<\/i>, qui n\u2019avait pas obtenu le succ\u00e8s. N\u00e9anmoins, les th\u00e8mes obsessionnels de Roth \u00e9taient d\u00e9j\u00e0 pr\u00e9sents, \u00e0 commencer bien s\u00fbr par la jud\u00e9it\u00e9. Obsessionnel, cet \u00e9crivain l\u2019est assur\u00e9ment, comme tous les g\u00e9nies. Imaginez un Tarantino qui ne f\u00fbt pas obsessionnel, de m\u00eame qu\u2019un Proust, un Polnareff, un Flaubert ou un Kubrick. Et il est une obsession qui parcourt tout <i>Portnoy and his complex<\/i>: celle du sexe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-la-folie-de-la-branlette\">La folie de la branlette<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Trois des six chapitres portent un titre \u00e9vocateur: \u00abLa branlette\u00bb, \u00abFou de la chatte\u00bb et \u00abLa forme la plus courante de la d\u00e9gradation dans la vie \u00e9rotique\u00bb. <i>Portnoy and his complex<\/i> est souvent r\u00e9sum\u00e9 et m\u00eame r\u00e9duit, \u00e0 tort, au r\u00e9cit de la manie masturbatoire. Mais il serait tout autant malhonn\u00eate de ne pas reconna\u00eetre qu\u2019il s\u2019agit d\u2019une dimension importante du roman. D\u2019ailleurs, qu\u2019est-ce que le complexe de Portnoy?\u00a0Un \u00abtrouble caract\u00e9ris\u00e9 par une perp\u00e9tuelle tension entre de vives pulsions d\u2019ordre \u00e9thique et altrusite et d\u2019irr\u00e9sistibles exigences sexuelles, souvent de tendance perverse\u00bb, comme nous l\u2019indique la d\u00e9finition qui pr\u00e9c\u00e8de le r\u00e9cit. Il est amusant de noter que les <i>exigences<\/i> ne sont pas d\u2019ordre moral, mais sexuel, tandis que ce sont les <i>pulsions<\/i> qui sont d\u2019ordre \u00e9thique. Cette perversion se trouve au c\u0153ur du roman, non sans une profonde ironie. Tout est l\u00e0: les <i>fixations<\/i> sont par d\u00e9finition <i>insatisfaites<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-lire-aussi-le-complot-contre-l-amerique\">Read also | <a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/the-plot-against-lamerica\/\"><em>The plot against America<\/em><\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Si l\u2019ouvrage est si int\u00e9ressant, c\u2019est qu\u2019il ne ressemble \u00e0 nul autre pareil. Et qu\u2019il est la premi\u00e8re v\u00e9ritable occurence de Philip Roth tel qu\u2019on l\u2019aborde aujourd\u2019hui, qu\u2019il marque par ailleurs l\u2019affirmation de son style, inclassable. \u00abJe m\u2019arrache \u00e0 mon pantalon et j\u2019empoigne furieusement ce b\u00e9lier d\u00e9labr\u00e9 qui me donne acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la libert\u00e9, ma pine adolescente, alors m\u00eame que ma m\u00e8re commence \u00e0 appeler de l\u2019autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la porte de la salle de bain. &#8220;Alors cette fois, ne tire pas la chasse. Tu m\u2019entends, Alex? Il faut que je voie ce qu\u2019il y a dans cette cuvette!&#8221;\u00bb La trame comique de ce passage, fil rouge de toute une partie du roman, voire de sa totalit\u00e9, est le quiproquo entre les envies masturbatoires du jeune narrateur et ses soi-disant maux de ventre que lui soup\u00e7onne sa m\u00e8re. D\u2019autant plus que le p\u00e8re est constip\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-un-recit-touchant-poignant-ebranlant-jouissif\">Un r\u00e9cit touchant, poignant, \u00e9branlant, jouissif<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Toute la beaut\u00e9 du roman \u2013 car le roman est non seulement dr\u00f4le, mais il est aussi beau \u2013 ainsi que sa profondeur r\u00e9sident dans <i>l\u2019ambiance<\/i> du r\u00e9cit. Comme il y a une Stendhalie pour Stendhal, nous pourrions parle d\u2019une \u00abRothanie\u00bb, ou de quelque chose de la sorte. Les romans de Philip Roth \u2013\u00a0je me permets de g\u00e9n\u00e9raliser pour la petite pioch\u00e9e de livres que j\u2019ai lue et la lecture des articles de mes coll\u00e8gues \u2013 sont ce je-ne-sais-quoi de tendre dans le quotidien d\u2019un jeune Juif dans l\u2019Am\u00e9rique des ann\u00e9es cinquante.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-lire-aussi-pastorale-americaine-un-ouvrage-qui-dit-tout\">Read also | <a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/pastorale-americaine-review\/\"><em>American pastoral care<\/em>, a book that says it all<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abDoctor Spielvogel, accuser ne soulage en rien \u2013&nbsp;accuser, c\u2019est encore \u00eatre malade, bien s\u00fbr, bien s\u00fbr&nbsp;\u2013 mais n\u00e9anmoins, qu\u2019avaient-ils donc ces parents juifs, qu\u2019avaient-ils pour \u00eatre capables de nous faire croire, \u00e0 nous petits gar\u00e7ons juifs, que nous \u00e9tions d\u2019une part des princes, uniques comme la licorne, g\u00e9niaux et brillants comme personne ne fut jamais brillant et beau dans toute l\u2019histoire de l\u2019enfance&nbsp;\u2013 jeunes sauveurs et pures perfections d\u2019une part, et de tels petits merdeux, turbulents, incapables, \u00e9tourdis, ineptes, \u00e9go\u00efstes, de tels petits <em>ingrats<\/em> de l\u2019autre!\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ce n\u2019est pas nouveau, seule la peinture d\u2019une identit\u00e9 particuli\u00e8re nous permet d\u2019acc\u00e9der \u00e0 l\u2019universel. Philip Roth est touchant parce que son personnage est touchant et que le Juif est touchant et que l\u2019\u00eatre humain est touchant et que moi-m\u00eame, en fin de compte, et avec beaucoup d\u2019imagination, je suis touchant. L\u2019art de la touche, c\u2019est l\u2019art de Roth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Write to the author: <a href=\"mailto:jonas.follonier@leregardlibre.com\">jonas.follonier@leregardlibre.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-vous-venez-de-lire-un-article-tire-de-notre-dossier-special-philip-roth-publie-dans-notre-edition-papier-le-regard-libre-n-43-debats-analyses-actualites-culturelles-abonnez-vous-a-notre-media-de-reflexion-pour-nous-soutenir-et-avoir-acces-a-tous-nos-contenus\">You have just read an article from our <a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/tag\/dossier-special-philip-roth\/\">Philip Roth special report<\/a>, published in our print edition (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cpt-editions\/le-regard-libre-n-43\/\">Le Regard Libre<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cpt-editions\/le-regard-libre-n-43\/\"> N\u00b0 43<\/a>). Debates, analyses, cultural news:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/subscription\/\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to support us and access all our content.<\/h6>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portnoy et son complexe\u00ab, 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, \u00bbGoodbye, Columbus\u00ab, 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. 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