The Professor Of Desire
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary fiction, The Professor of Desire chronicles the turbulent inner life of David Kepesh, a young American academic whose insatiable appetite for pleasure and meaning pulls him between intellectual ambition and erotic obsession. Roth traces Kepesh's journey from a freewheeling sexual awakening in Europe to the quiet, suffocating comfort of a domestic relationship in New York, illustrating with unflinching honesty how desire can be both a liberating force and a source of profound psychological torment. Written with Roth's signature wit and psychological precision, the novel presents a man perpetually at war with himself — a scholar of literature who cannot reconcile the passionate life he craves with the disciplined life he leads. The narrative argues, with sharp irony, that the pursuit of desire is never truly satisfied, only endlessly deferred, making Kepesh one of American fiction's most compellingly self-aware and self-defeating protagonists.
Author: Philip Roth
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary fiction, The Professor of Desire chronicles the turbulent inner life of David Kepesh, a young American academic whose insatiable appetite for pleasure and meaning pulls him between intellectual ambition and erotic obsession. Roth traces Kepesh's journey from a freewheeling sexual awakening in Europe to the quiet, suffocating comfort of a domestic relationship in New York, illustrating with unflinching honesty how desire can be both a liberating force and a source of profound psychological torment. Written with Roth's signature wit and psychological precision, the novel presents a man perpetually at war with himself — a scholar of literature who cannot reconcile the passionate life he craves with the disciplined life he leads. The narrative argues, with sharp irony, that the pursuit of desire is never truly satisfied, only endlessly deferred, making Kepesh one of American fiction's most compellingly self-aware and self-defeating protagonists.