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Chapter 9 - The Kepesh Books

from Part II - Critical Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2021

By
Mike Witcombe
Edited by
Maggie McKinley
Maggie McKinley
Affiliation:
Harper College
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Summary

David Kepesh, the protagonist of The Breast (1972), The Professor of Desire (1977), and The Dying Animal (2001), is one such protagonist. This chapter will discuss “The Kepesh novels” as a whole, addressing the benefits and drawbacks of considering these novels as a neatly combined unit, and examining their place within Roth’s body of work as a whole, commenting on what they reveal evolution of his ideas about literature, psychoanalysis, masculinity, and aging.

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David Kepeshalter egocritical responsereviewsbiography
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Philip Roth in Context , pp. 91 - 100
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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