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The Professor of Desire is a 1977 novel by Philip Roth. It describes the youth, the college years and the academic career of professor David Kepesh, and beside that, his sexual desires. The book was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Plot summary. David is emotionally insecure.
The Professor of Desire. Philip Roth. 3.68. 3,751ratings294reviews. Kindle $12.99. Rate this book. David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities.
As Philip Roth follows Kapesh from the domesticity of childhood out into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the depths of loneliness in New York, Kapesh confronts the central dilemma of pleasure: how to make a truce between dignity and desire; and how to survive the ordeal of an unhallowed existence.
4.2 230 ratings. See all formats and editions. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral —"a thoughtful...elegant" (The New York Times Book Review) and often hilarous 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.
The Professor of Desire. Philip Roth. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Mar 15, 1994 - Fiction - 272 pages. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—"a...
Philip Roth. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jul 2, 2013 - Fiction - 272 pages. Philip Roth's The Professor of Desire is the story of an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling trying to...
The Professor of Desire. By Philip Roth. Best Seller. Part of Vintage International. Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction. Paperback $20.00. Mar 15, 1994| ISBN 9780679749004. Buy. Ebook $12.99. Sep 21, 2022| ISBN 9780593684948. Buy. All Formats. +. Paperback$20.00. Mar 15, 1994 | ISBN 9780679749004. Add to Cart. Buy from Other Retailers:
