![]() ![]() What follows is a deliriously funny yet moving exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human experience. Roth sees that the immediate effects of this tradition were in many ways absurd: in eighth grade, he wrote, together with an unnamed girl student, a one act play, a quasi-allegory with a strong. ![]() But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narrator of Philip Roth's fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. What follows is a deliriously funny yet moving exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human. ![]() ![]()
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