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 this fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a funny exploration of the implications of metamorphosis.
David Kepesh Reeks
Deze serie duikt in de diepgaande en vaak aangrijpende aspecten van het menselijk bestaan, met een focus op de complexiteit van relaties, liefde en identiteit. Met compromisloze eerlijkheid en indringende psychologische diepgang, verkent de auteur het innerlijke leven van personages, waarbij hun verlangens, angsten en zoektocht naar betekenis worden onthuld. Elk verhaal is een meesterlijke karakterstudie die de lezer aan het denken zet over zijn eigen levenskeuzes en de menselijke conditie.
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As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes". Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be - or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage a trios in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire.
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David, white-haired & over 60, is a TV culture critic & lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela, a 24-year-old student, daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who puts his life into erotic disorder & haunts him for the next eight years.