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Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis — a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.
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The Breast, Philip Roth
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- Released
- 1973
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- The Breast
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Philip Roth
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Released
- 1973
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 78
- ISBN10
- 0224008102
- ISBN13
- 9780224008105
- Series
- Tags
- Humor, USA, 20th century, American Literature
- Description
- Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis — a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.