The dying animal

Resource Information

The work The dying animal represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The dying animal

Statement of responsibility

Philip Roth

Creator

• Roth, Philip

Subject

• Fiction
• Kepesh, David, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Erotic fiction
• Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• College teachers -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Women college students -- Fiction
• Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Erotic fiction
• Psychological fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"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 twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder." "Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left 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 license into an orderly 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 Consuela, "a masterpiece of volupte," undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness tranports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3568.O855

LC item number

D95 2001

Literary form

fiction