The Breast Paperback - 1994
by Philip Roth
Like some latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Roth's fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a funny yet touching exploration of sex and subjectivity.
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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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- Title The Breast
- Author Philip Roth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1994-03-15
- ISBN 9780679749011 / 0679749012
- Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.26 x 0.2 in (20.42 x 13.36 x 0.51 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, College teachers - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93043498
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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