Portnoyův komplex - CDmp3 (Čte Ondřej Brousek)

I have sex, therefore I am saving humanity. And yet I can't manage without my psychoanalyst... ***** In 1966, he lay down on the couch of a famous New York shrink and would like to confess to him, as his faith does not account for any other form of sinful relaxation. Alexander Portnoy – a Jewish model citizen in... uh... his Christ-like years, a young human rights lawyer, and above all a womanizer obsessed with both sex and social altruism – has a neurosis like a beam. As he dives into the depths of his disillusionment under the watchful eye of Dr. Spielvogel, he hunts for grievance after grievance as a masochist. Because he cannot seem to sever the umbilical cord of frustrations, which he attributes to the loving tyranny of his bourgeois parents, the binding Jewish taboos, and the world pain from prejudices that even the most radical hippie couldn't handle, it is not to be expected that he will find inner peace. Thus, Alex's scandalously straightforward and wonderfully sinful confession, spiced with the twists and turns of his latest relationship with a tantalizing Barbie, offers the audience a comedy unlike any other in the times of the sexual revolution. ***** Roth's masterpiece waited for a Czech edition throughout the entire "normalization" twenty years – and then showed our prudery how far one can go in the interest of literature. Who would be surprised by an author who...