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Professor of Desire (Paperback)

by Philip Roth (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi Childrens; New Ed edition (14 Sep 1979)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552111694
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552111690
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 547,763 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is acceded to it totally, to the time when he attempts to domesticate his passions (and his wife's) and finally to that most surprising moment when desire ebbs and, frighteningly, seems on the brink of disappearance. The book explores in all its painful ramifications, the pursuit and loss of erotic happiness. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). In 2000 he published The Human Stain, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For The Human Stain Roth received his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as Britain's W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, given every six years 'for the entire work of the recipient'. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Deep and true, 3 Feb 2001
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This review is from: The Professor of Desire (Paperback)
I have read most of Philip Roth's books and I come to each one with a feeling of dread that this time, maybe he won't live up to my ever climbing expectations. This book is however, as ever, truly exceptional. Deceptively simple, a story of one man and his relationships it manages to ring true and bring a depth to the characters, events and thoughts it raises that few other recent books I have read can match. Well no other philip roth books actually. Read it and enjoy.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Roth's take on relationships in the modern world, 28 Nov 2008
By Andres C. Salama (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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Written in 1977, this is the second book by Philip Roth featuring David Kepesh, here a young man who is starting his career as a literature professor. As he pursues different women in different continents, the question always in his mind is if he should settle for marriage and love or for sex without commitment. A side trip to Prague is not only a homage to Kafka but one of the best passages of the book. By the next installment of Kepesh in the Dying Animal, written almost a quarter century later, he is a man in his sixties, who has chosen to live without a commitment and therefore now feels lonely and vulnerable to young women. Roth's stream of consciousness style is sometimes infuriating but often illuminating about the conflict between love and desire after the sexual revolution. Reading Roth can help you develop a quite realistic understanding of many aspects of the contemporary world, even if you find such aspects quite appalling.
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