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| Title | : | The Dying Animal |
| Author | : | Philip Roth |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 156 pages |
| Published | : | March 7th 2002 by Vintage (first published May 18th 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. Literature. American |
Philip Roth
Paperback | Pages: 156 pages Rating: 3.63 | 8498 Users | 755 Reviews
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'No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex'With these words America's most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college - as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete's critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated.
The agency of Kepesh's undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous, humblingly beautiful twenty-four-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged helplessly into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling the themes of eros and mortality, licence and repression, freedom and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.
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| Original Title: | The Dying Animal |
| ISBN: | 0099422697 (ISBN13: 9780099422693) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | David Kepesh, Consuela Castillo |
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Ratings: 3.63 From 8498 Users | 755 ReviewsAssessment Based On Books The Dying Animal
While not his greatest work, Philip Roth's A Dying Animal is a highly readable and entertaining story of Roth's alter ego David Kapesh and his various affairs as a septuagenarian ex-professor. It ranges from hilarious to grotesque (in the Sabbath's Theater sense of the word) to poignant. Few writers are as brutally honest about themselves as Roth and this is one of the books on which I find his psyche right on top.RIP (1933-2018). One of America's literary giants has left us.I definitely did not like this book. Not very surprising though, pretty much anyone could've told you that this just isn't a book for me. But I had to read this for school, so I didn't really have a choice. It wasn't like I hated the whole book; at times it was quite enjoyable. The writing wasn't that bad either, it's just that I couldn't stand the story. Yeah, not just the protagonist, but the whole story. I'm sorry (and like I said, these kind of books aren't for me) but it just felt like such
You see that painting of a nude woman? That's an Amedeo Modigliani painting, a character in this book sends a post card with that nude printed on it. And I, like some naive coed horny for culture, am always impressed with Professor Roth's little references. If nothing else, they get me interested in something I didn't know about (Like Milton's essays on divorce?).He also likes to sneak in passages on obscure portions of American history. Here we have Thomas Morton, the early American colonist
Old professor obsessed with fucking young girls and ogling their breasts. And describing their breasts. And some other disturbing scenes-everyone has a fetish, to each their own, I just dont necessarily want to ever have the image of a guy licking menstrual blood off a womans legs... oh shit! Too late. And now you have it too. I have to say though that the writing is quite elegant, and its a quick read. I think this one is for real Roth fans, which I dont yet know if I am, and based on the
Civilization and Its DiscontentsThe aging protagonist is proclaiming the unworkability of marriage for the male of the species, just as unworkable as for a gay man forced into a heterosexual marriage. In consequence, he ended his marriage years before. Now he has the pick of his female students. Being as it's the '90s, he has to sidestep new impediments by waiting until the young lady of the year becomes his former student. He celebrates the 1960s sexual revolution as a great boon, even for
While not his greatest work, Philip Roth's A Dying Animal is a highly readable and entertaining story of Roth's alter ego David Kapesh and his various affairs as a septuagenarian ex-professor. It ranges from hilarious to grotesque (in the Sabbath's Theater sense of the word) to poignant. Few writers are as brutally honest about themselves as Roth and this is one of the books on which I find his psyche right on top.RIP (1933-2018). One of America's literary giants has left us.
Scanning this book as my other half poured over it with disarming fascination, I had to peek into what had so mesmerized him. After all, I hadn't read a Roth novel since my early 20's, already at that young age having determined that there was nothing here but adolescent angst. And this dying animal? Ah, but I had been right to not bother all these years and with all the in between novels. The story was quite the same one. This time the difference was only one of age. A Roth version of Lolita,
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