5/13/2023 0 Comments The breast by philip roth![]() Another is his loyal, banal mistress, Claire. One of his visitors is his brave, banal father, who comes once a week and, “seated in a chair that is drawn up close to my nipple,” reports the dull adventures of peo ple who were once guests at the Kepesh's Jewish hotel in the Cats kills. So the professor rants and reasons, or tells banal jokes to himself and those who visit him. But it's not the trans formation is real. Perhaps madness, an effect of hav ing taught too much Swift, Kafka and Gogol. ![]() David Alan Kepesh says-the central character in Phil ip Roth's new novella, “The Breast.” For reasons not altogether clear to his doctors-“the assault (some say) of a volcanic secretion from the pi tuitary of ‘mammogenic’ fluid”-Ke pesh has turned into an enormous breast, round at one end like a watermelon, at the other end a nip ple that can hear and talk and feel sexual stimulation but never reach orgasm, forever howling “more!” Per haps it's a dream, Kepesh hopes. “Better the banal than the apoca lyptic,” Prof. ![]()
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