by Philip A. Roth · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499236501
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«Das sterbende Tier» is the novel by Philip Roth, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (159 pages, in German).
David Kepesh, a New York professor and cultural critic in his sixties, has lived unencumbered since the sexual revolution. When he meets Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old student and daughter of Cuban exiles, his life changes: the relationship becomes an erotic obsession marked by jealousy and loss over eight years.
German translation by Dirk van Gunsteren. 2004 edition from the rororo imprint.
For readers of contemporary literature seeking an intense story about desire, jealousy, and the passage of time in relationships.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
