The Dying Animal Paperback - 2002
by Philip Roth
Freed from the Bastille of convention, an aging aesthete's encounter with female beauty turns tragic in an erotic novel of startling candor. David Kepesh's carefree adventure with Consuela Castillo turns into a maddening sexual possessiveness which plunges him into the depths of deforming jealousy.
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"No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college-as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete's critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated.
The agency of Kepesh's undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous and humblingly beautiful 24-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged-helplessly, bitterly, furiously-into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality, license and repression, selfishness and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.
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- Title The Dying Animal
- Author Philip Roth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-07-09
- ISBN 9780375714122 / 037571412X
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.18 x 0.49 in (20.37 x 13.16 x 1.24 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Library of Congress subjects College teachers, Psychological fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- BookPage, 07/01/2002, Page 23
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/28/2002, Page 137
- New York Times, 07/21/2002, Page 20
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