The Animal which dies

the Animal which dies is a novel published in 2003 of the American author Philip Roth, born in 1933. He tells the history of a professor of literature, David Kepesh, made famous for an emission of criticism literary to the radio, which in spite of its scientific and cultural, dark maturity in a battle emotion it when he embarks in an erotic connection with a young coed, exiled Cuba innate.

Kepesh is fascinated by the arrival of the beautiful coed Consuela Castillo, and a relation is formed between them. Consuela seems to love the professor sincerely, but Kepesh cannot choose between it and another woman. They can live their relation only in the professor, or at the time of visits to the theater, because the parents of the coed could reveal the illegitimate connection. The body of Consuela ends up losing David Kepesh; it even drops to lick the blood of its rules.

Kepesh finishes completely destroyed by its irresolution, its fear of aging, by pleasure like by its jealousy, vis-a-vis the new lover of Consuela, more attentive than him. After a few years without contact, Consuela requires of Kepesh to take photographs of naked of it, because touched by a breast cancer, the surgical operation which it owes undergoes will make him lose.

The novel does not treat only carnal passion, but also of it on what the human relations are based, of the company and the American beliefs, in particular the Puritanisme.

The majority of the editions use as cover a painting of Amedeo Modigliani, large naked the (1919). During the history, Consuela sends to Kepesh a Postcard representing this painting, left Alter ego of the coed.

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