The Professor of Desire - Hardcover

Roth, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224015656 ISBN 13: 9780224015653

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1978

Synopsis

Professor of Desire follows David Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York. Roth creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire.

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Review

" Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time." -- "Village Voice"
" No one writing can juggle the somber and the ludicrous more adroitly than Roth." -- "Time"
" Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism.... [He] speaks of a sexuality that questions itself; it is still hedonism, but it is problematic, wounded, ironic hedonism. His is the uncommon union of confession and irony. Infinitely vulnerable in his sincerity and infinitely elusive in his irony." -- Milan Kundera
" A thoughtful...elegant novel.... A fine display of literary skills." -- "The New York Times Book Review"

"Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time." --"Village Voice"
"No one writing can juggle the somber and the ludicrous more adroitly than Roth." --"Time"
"Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism.... [He] speaks of a sexuality that questions itself; it is still hedonism, but it is problematic, wounded, ironic hedonism. His is the uncommon union of confession and irony. Infinitely vulnerable in his sincerity and infinitely elusive in his irony." --Milan Kundera
"A thoughtful...elegant novel.... A fine display of literary skills." --"The New York Times Book Review"

Book Description

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre – 31 books – to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224015656
• ISBN 13: 9780224015653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263