The Dying Animal

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菲利普・罗斯(Philip Roth),1933年出生在美国新泽西州的纽瓦克市,被认为是当代最杰出的美国犹太裔作家之一。罗斯以短篇小说《再见,哥伦布》崛起,在过去的十年间,他已赢得美国多个主要文学奖项,1998年更是凭借《美国田园诗》一举获得美国普利策文学奖,电影《人性污点》即由他2000年出版的同名畅销小说改编,他也是近年来获诺贝尔文学奖呼声颇高的作家之一。

出版者:Jonathan Cape Ltd
作者:Philip Roth
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页数:176
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出版时间:2001-7-12
价格:GBP 12.99
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780224061933
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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 twentyfour, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder and haunts him for the next eight years. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s freed him from 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 licence into an orderly way of 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 this 'newly-hatched' woman - 'a masterpiece,' as Kepesh describes Consuela, 'of volupte' - undo him completely. His worldliness, his confidence, his reason desert him, and on the brink of old age, a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The light-hearted erotic tale with which he began evolves into a poignant, tragic story of love and loss. The Dying Animal is vintage Roth fiction, a masterpiece of passionate immediacy. It is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedent - a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy.

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The Dying Animal is the latest addition to Philip Roth's already considerable and highly celebrated oeuvre. The protagonist is David Kepesh, a recurring protagonist in Roth's work, having been introduced first in the Kafkaesque 1972 novella, The Breast, and again in The Professor of Desire (1979). Kepesh, now a 70-year-old arts critic and lecturer in critical theory, is a sexual adventurer, who feels himself liberated from marriage, children and old school sexual mores by the 1960s sexual revolution, and uses his celebrity and intellectual reputation to seduce the young women that he tutors. Written in the form of a conversational confession, Roth has Kepesh introduce the method of his sexual conquests and then the foil to his method, the beautiful, mannered and busty Consuela Castillo. So begins a description of a descent into the madness of love; "crazy distortions of longing, doting, possessiveness ... this need, this derangement. Will it ever stop?"

. What begins as a chronology of sexual conquest becomes an exquisite meditation on the destructive and addictive nature of love and lust. Notions of social freedom, and sexual emancipation are explored as Kepesh, who for so long has considered himself a free animal, finds himself caged in by his obsession. His journey of sexual discovery becomes one of self-discovery, and as his life journey nears its close he also begins to realise in himself and those around him, "the dying animal" (from Yeats' poem "Sailing to Byzantium"),a different beast to the sexual animal yet still entwined with it through shared flesh.

This is a sexually candid novel, a brave and daring one, a novel that does not blink in the admission that so many of our actions are motivated by the sexual. In this it is reminiscent of the writings of Henry Miller, which are mentioned among the many literary references that populate this book. Every line of Roth's prose brings a desire to read the next; it is brilliantly written, and like the Yeats poem from which it draws inspiration, it is open to much interpretation.

                             --Iain Robinson

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)19.8                 width:(cm)12.6

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很精彩,可以感受到很多。关于以下问题,什么是永恒不变的爱,什么是地老天荒的情感。与其说亘古不变或地老天荒,那些都只是梦想与憧憬,唯有敢于付出真情才会到爱情永在。其实美丽的爱情如同所有美丽的事物,珍惜它,爱护它,才有机会伴随它。 爱情可以没有年龄的差距,...  

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很精彩,可以感受到很多。关于以下问题,什么是永恒不变的爱,什么是地老天荒的情感。与其说亘古不变或地老天荒,那些都只是梦想与憧憬,唯有敢于付出真情才会到爱情永在。其实美丽的爱情如同所有美丽的事物,珍惜它,爱护它,才有机会伴随它。 爱情可以没有年龄的差距,...  

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说实话,中文翻译的不怎么高明... 这本小说其实没有用什么很玄妙的叙事技法,和《低音提琴》相仿,如果和《赫索格》相比那还是单薄了许多。菲利普・罗斯想要表达的东西太多太多,死亡,流放,美国六七十年代青年的反叛,家庭,肉身,恐惧,爱。在这么多东西面前,作者的笔...  

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He who forms a tie is lost. 一个多月来也一样的婆娑烟火,也一样言语不通但肉欲痴缠后更能明白了。

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书写男性欲望。

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书写男性欲望。

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He who forms a tie is lost. 一个多月来也一样的婆娑烟火,也一样言语不通但肉欲痴缠后更能明白了。

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这本书应该集中了他饱受诟病的各种观点和态度吧

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