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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I don't know about this one. I picked it up from my mother's holiday home, summer-reading bookshelf for a light read. As a 57 year old male, of course I was drawn into this story of a 60+ professor who has affairs with his students - rather than remain loyally married. But it felt a more than a little lurid. And to what point? ( ) Desde que la revolución de los sesenta lo liberó de sus ataduras familiares, David Kepesh, profesor universitario, un hombre seductor, inteligente y culto, ha vivido sin compromisos. Y tiene una rica fuente para sus conquistas dentro de sus propias clases. A sus setenta años, confiesa una de sus últimas experiencias sentimentales: la que mantuvo con Consuelo Castillo, una joven cubana, casi cincuenta años más joven que él, que le enfrentó con las claves de su vida. It comes as no surprise that Roth handles death, dying, sex, and the effects of all three on the human psyche with more honesty, more ease, than any writer this country has produced. The Dying Animal is a perfect book that accomplishes so much more in its allotted pages than the average novel in twice, three times as many. David Kepesh has come a long way from the lit student-turned mammary - oh, how breasts reprise their role! In Deception-like fashion, Kepesh tells the story to some other figure in the room about an affair unlike any other. Consuela, a twentysomething Cuban immigrant, and one of Kepesh's students, is one of the fiercest and most interesting (female) characters that Roth has invented. She's the contender in the room that has Kepesh, whose list of sexual episodes reads something like an anonymous survey of male fantasies, damn near trembling with insecurity. Roth's mastery over the series of events that has these two meet, fuck, separate, and meet again, is nothing short of brilliance. And with Dying in the title, the reader can expect this novel, in which a Casanova Jewish intellectual is caught in the middle of a war between eros and thanatos, to come with painfully beautiful Rothian meditations on the inevitable end of life. Kepesh is finished.
The Dying Animal ends on a note of radical ambiguity and indeterminacy. What is rather unusual about it is the way it challenges the reader at every point to define and defend his own ethical position toward the issues raised by the story. It is a small, disturbing masterpiece.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML: David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an "emancipated manhood," beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and license into an orderly life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, "a masterpiece of volupté" undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss. What is astonishing is how much of America's post-sixties sexual landscape is encompassed in THE DYING ANIMAL. Once again, with unmatched facility, Philip Roth entangles the fate of his characters with the social forces that shape our daily lives. And there is no character who can tell us more about the way we live with desire now than David Kepesh, whose previous incarnations as a sexual being were chronicled by Roth in THE BREAST and THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE. A work of passionate immediacy as well as a striking exploration of attachment and freedom, THE DYING ANIMAL is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedentâ??a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy, a story about the power of eros and the fact of death. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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