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The Professor of Desire follows the life of David Kepesh, who narrates his story in the present tense and the first person. As a child, David lives at the Hungarian Royale, which is the hotel and resort owned and operated by his parents. In college, he aspires at first to be an actor, but then he turns his attention to the study of literature.
29 de set. de 2010 · The professor of desire by Roth, Philip. Publication date 1977 Topics College teachers, Kepesh, David (Fictitious character) Publisher
About The Professor of Desire. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—”a thoughtful…elegant” (The New York Times Book Review) and often hilarous 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. As a student in college, David ...
The Professor of Desire. Philip Roth. Macmillan, 1977 - American fiction - 263 pages. David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms. This book explores in all its painful ...
3 de out. de 1977 · THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE. In 1972, the mature David Kepesh told us how he turned into The Breast, but here are his earlier, less symbolic guises—child of the Borscht Belt, scholar of Chekhov and Kafka, and wrestler with temptation. Believing that "my desire is desire, it is not to be belittled or despised," young David uses his literature-in ...
A Cool Book on a Warm Topic. THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE. By Philip Roth. hilip Roth's 10th book is a thoughtful, even gentle, stylistically elegant novel about the paradox of male desire, that lacerating sexual passion which may lead to happiness but cannot survive it. The effect of the book is more that of discourse than of fiction, high-level ...
15 de mar. de 1994 · From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—"a thoughtful...elegant" (The New York Times Book Review) and often hilarous 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.
