by Philip Roth · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420465067
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In 'The Dying Animal', Philip Roth introduces us to David Kepesh, an eighty-year-old university professor and cultural critic, who decides to confess one of his last sentimental relationships. This relationship is with Consuelo Castillo, a young Cuban woman almost fifty years younger than him. Throughout his life, Kepesh has lived apart from commitments, enjoying an emancipated erotic life. However, Consuelo's vitality and beauty confront him with the meaning of his own existence, leading him to experience jealousy and possessiveness.
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.
