The Professor of Desire

by Philip Roth Narrated by David Colacci

Overview

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes thoughtful 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.

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself “a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes.” Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be-or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a novel that “ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time” (Village Voice).

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal

LJ's reviewer dubbed this volume ``an entertaining, mature exploration of the conflicts of passion and reason'' (LJ 9/15/77). The plot follows protagonist David Kepesh, who moves between a life of scholarship and carnal adventure. The paperback publication of Roth's Operation Shylock (LJ 4/15/93) should generate interest in this earlier novel.

Charles McGrath

....[T]houghtful, stylistically elegant novel about the paradox of male desire. -- The New York Times Books of the Century

New York Times Book Review

[A] thoughtful, stylistically elegant novel about the paradox of male desire.”

From the Publisher

"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

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160412559
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	05/07/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged

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