The Dying Animal

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

Books about The Body in Philip Roth's "Everyman", "The Dying Animal" and "Patrimony

'This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest' New Statesman David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent cultural critic on NPR radio and a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For years he's

The following thesis will set about examining four twenty-first century, elderly male, literary and filmic figures: Abe Ravelstein of Saul Bellow's Ravelstein (2000); David Kepesh of Phillip Roth's The Dying Animal (2001). David Kepesh of Elegy (2008, dir. by Elizabeth Coixet); and Hal Fields of Beginners (2010, dir. by Mike

The Kepesh trilogy spans three decades of Philip Roth's career, beginning with The Breast in 1972, and continuing with the Professor of Desire in 1977 and The Dying Animal in 2001. This study demonstrates that the trilogy is not only worthy of critical analysis in its own right, but also