The Dying Animal

Zusatztext “[A] disturbing masterpiece.” —The New York Review of Books “Sorrowful! sexy! elegant . . . [A] distinguished addition to Roth’s increasingly remarkable literary career.” –San Francisco Chronicle “Roth is a mesmerizing writer! whose very language has the vitality of a living organism.” – The Los Angeles Times “No one can come close to Roth’s comic genius and breadth of moral imperative.” –The Boston Globe Informationen zum Autor PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for  American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at   the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American   Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.   He twice won the National Book Award and the National   Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner   Award three times. In 2005  The Plot Against America  received   the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding   historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004."   Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards:   in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities   Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth   recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The unforgettable story of an affair between a star lecturer at a New York college and the beautiful daughter of Cuban exiles—and the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss that ensues—from the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral . “[A] disturbing masterpiece.” — The New York Review of Books 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 jealousy and loss. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the th...

Product details

• Authors: Philip Roth
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2002
• EAN: 9780375714122
• ISBN: 978-0-375-71412-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature