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Dying Animal

出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)

書林書號：

20062941

作者：

Roth, Philip

定價：

420

會員價：

$357

ISBN：

037571412X

出版年份：

2002

裝訂：

平裝

總頁數：

176

本書介紹

垂死的肉身
2008年改編電影《禁慾》
62歲老教授大衛凱布希和他24歲女學生康蘇拉之間有不軌關係，他迷戀她的身體，而對她而言，教授的地位和年紀使她願意屈服。隨著兩人關係進展，教授對於青春的嫉妒與年老的恐懼讓他掙扎於垂死與性愛之間，而他們兩人關係的結束更讓教授長時間備受折磨。分手八年後的一天，他卻接到女孩得到乳癌的消息，她請求教授為她拍攝裸照……

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.