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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
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。
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评分2.15-17| ruthlessly candid pervertedly arousing don't know what to make of the second part
评分看完电影就开始垂涎原著了
评分the essence of the book is mistaken by many i would said. It is disguised as a book on sex between a young girl and an experienced older Man. It is in fact a book about a hunter who gets hunted himself. A book about love. The love he develops for her.
评分2.15-17| ruthlessly candid pervertedly arousing don't know what to make of the second part
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...
评分几乎一口气读完,文字流畅,就像我崇拜的那种人一样,优雅成熟。 故事上,喜欢老少配的,不要错过,讲一个会弹钢琴的浪漫老流氓,爱上聪明且荷尔蒙分泌过多的女孩的故事。
评分几乎一口气读完,文字流畅,就像我崇拜的那种人一样,优雅成熟。 故事上,喜欢老少配的,不要错过,讲一个会弹钢琴的浪漫老流氓,爱上聪明且荷尔蒙分泌过多的女孩的故事。
评分 评分The Dying Animal pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024