Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis—a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.
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"A radical, complex, and moving book...the best example yet of Roth's astonishing prowess when he is at the top of his talent and control." —Ted Solotaroff, Esquire
"A new shock world of sensual possibility.... Need one say again that Roth is an admirable novelist who never steps twice into the same river?" —Anthony Burgess
"The Breast is terrific...inventive and sane and very funny. The trick which is the heart of the book is brilliant...and rich with meaning." —John Gardner, The New York TImes Book Review
"Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical; the ending amazes—the joke takes three steps beyond savagery and satire and turns into a sublimeness of pity. One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture." —Cynthia Ozick
"A new shock world of sensual possibility.... Need one say again that Roth is an admirable novelist who never steps twice into the same river?" —Anthony Burgess
"The Breast is terrific...inventive and sane and very funny. The trick which is the heart of the book is brilliant...and rich with meaning." —John Gardner, The New York TImes Book Review
"Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical; the ending amazes—the joke takes three steps beyond savagery and satire and turns into a sublimeness of pity. One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture." —Cynthia Ozick
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'Roth is a living master' Harold Bloom
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On the back of the book some reviewers praise the complexity of the book. I think you can get the best out of the book, if you sweep over it and grasp the humour of the situation. Basically it is a very, very funny book. Just the idea of a human turning into a huge breast, strapped onto a hospital bed is crazy. I can't call it sexy, allthough there are some moments of strange or bizarre excitment.
Of course if you look into it a little deeper, you will see how expertly the author worked out the psychology of the breast-patient. Also the abundance with which the human, or actually the male, mind thinks of only one thing. And when he suppresses that one thing he goes straight into madness. The relationships that evolve, or actually don't, are a funny but realistic reflection of the beauty of the human soul. Well, you can get a lot of meaning out if this little book. If you still want to go deeper, be my guest or read Kafka's transformation. At least you won't be sitting in that awfully bright hospital-room.
Of course if you look into it a little deeper, you will see how expertly the author worked out the psychology of the breast-patient. Also the abundance with which the human, or actually the male, mind thinks of only one thing. And when he suppresses that one thing he goes straight into madness. The relationships that evolve, or actually don't, are a funny but realistic reflection of the beauty of the human soul. Well, you can get a lot of meaning out if this little book. If you still want to go deeper, be my guest or read Kafka's transformation. At least you won't be sitting in that awfully bright hospital-room.
Von John Cardenas
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I would agree with the review below that Roth doesn't do enough with his scenario here. Roth seems to shrink away from the obvious potential for travesty that his subject allows; instead, he retreats into cool academicism, choosing to discuss the philosophical ramifications of Kepesh's predicament, and thereby insuring the book's "serious" credentials. He's too careful: he never really gives in to the debasement and inherent misogyny implied by Kepesh's metamorphosis into a female breast (I'll take honest misogyny over dishonest political correctness anyday). This tactic would work if Roth showed us the ridiculous desperation of the character's attempt to save face, but Roth seems to share Kepesh's objectivity. The rollicking wit and audacious deviltry of a novel like Portnoy's Complaint are nowhere to be found. (And the book lacks the queasy nightmarishness of Kafka, to whom it owes an obvious debt.) Roth seems to want to revel in the bad taste and ridiculousness of male fetishism, on the one hand, and yet still maintain a dignified demeanor. This is a tricky feat to pull off, and I don't think he is entirely successful. One moment of absurd comic bliss remains: the breast's recitation of Othello's final soliloquy has got to be one of the most ingenious mock-heroic scenes in all of literature. If Roth had pulled off more scenes like that, this book would be a minor classic of literary travesty (despite all the attempts by academics to cleanse it of impurities by their insistence on the book's serious themes and imagery).
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Phillip Roth opened the door to many readers with this illusional essay on a human transforming into a human breast and describing all of the stimulus that a female erotically invites. With this work of art, Roth welcomed me into his world of descriptive narrative and made me a fan for life. This should be a stepping stone unto other Roth works such as the"Professor of Desire". I have yet to read another novel as eccentrically interesting.
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Readable, but only partly successful.
How's this for a premise: a university professor one day inexplicably turns into a human breast. It's a memorably bizarre set-up that launches Roth on all his usual speculations... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. April 2000 von "elljay"
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Wow...
This book is incredible. I actually had to put this book down several times while reading it just to "relieve" myself. A GREAT read. Definitely worth it.
Veröffentlicht am 7. Februar 2000 von Susan
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