The Professor Of Desire [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

Roth, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0099389010 ISBN 13: 9780099389019

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2003

Riassunto

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime. As Philip Roth follows Kapesh from the domesticity of childhood out into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the depths of loneliness in New York, Kapesh confronts the central dilemma of pleasure: how to make a truce between dignity and desire; and how to survive the ordeal of an unhallowed existence.

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Recensione:

"Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism" (Milan Kundera)

"A thoughtful, even gentle, stylistically elegant novel about the paradox of male desire, that lacerating passion which may lead to happiness but cannot survive it" (New York Times Book Review)

"He writes so well. His prose is both elegant and furious. It can be witty, tender and brutal in a single paragraph" (Melvyn Bragg)

"No one writing can juggle the somber and the ludicrous more adroitly than Roth" (The Time)

"A profound and commanding book... There is great beauty in it, humanity and tenderness" (Sunday Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre – 31 books – to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

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• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099389010
• ISBN 13: 9780099389019
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272