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.
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.
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 we follow Kepesh into the wilderness of erotic possibility, we discover an intelligent and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a NewYork college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the Sixties, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has been living a life of ‘emancipated manhood’, without ties or responsibilities. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, ‘a masterpiece of volupté’, undo him completely, and his worldliness, his confidence and reason desert him as he slides into the depths of a maddening sexual jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure with which he began evolves, over eight years, into a tragic story of love and loss.