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Structurally, Portnoy's Complaint is a continuous monologue by narrator Alexander Portnoy to Dr. Spielvogel, his psychoanalyst; Roth later explained that the artistic choice to frame the story as a psychoanalytic session was motivated by "the permissive conventions of the patient-analyst situation," which would "permit me to bring into my fiction the sort of intimate, shameful detail, and ...
The name Portnoy, sometimes spelled Portnoi, is a Jewish surname of Russian origin. The Russian word 'портной' translates as 'tailor'. The name may refer to:
Project Lingua, or just Lingua is an online translation community formed in the end of 2006 [1] with the goal of translating articles from the global citizen media project Global Voices Online from English into other languages, opening lines of distributed [2] communication between bloggers across the world.
Portnov (feminine: Portnova; Russian: Портнов, Портнова) is a Russian-language occupational surname derived from the occupation of portnoy, "tailor" and literally meaning "<child> of the tailor". Sometimes written as Portnoff or Portnow. The surname may refer to:
Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968–1973).
Portnoy was born and raised in Swampscott, Massachusetts, [5] [2] the son of Michael, a lawyer, and Linda, a high school teacher. [6] He is Jewish. [2] [7] [8] After attending Swampscott High School, where one of his classmates was ESPN's Todd McShay, [9] Portnoy graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in education. [10]
Michael Portnoy (born August 2, 1971) is an American visual artist, filmmaker, choreographer and performance artist. He calls himself a "Director of Behavior". He calls himself a "Director of Behavior".
Portnow is an occupational surname derived from the Russian word "portnoy", "tailor". Notable people with the surname include: James Portnow, American writer and game designer; Neil Portnow, American music industry executive; Richard Portnow (born 1947), American actor