by Philip Roth · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070763597
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«La bête qui meurt» is the novel by Philip Roth, published by Gallimard in paperback (144 pages, in French).
David Kepesh, a sexagenarian university professor and cultural critic, meets Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old student and daughter of Cuban exiles. The relationship reveals a sexual dependence that consumes him: the novel explores desire, jealousy and aging in the face of youth and beauty, in an America far removed from the spirit of the 1960s.
Third installment of the David Kepesh series. Originally published as The Dying Animal in 2001; the French translation is by Josée Kamoun.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, a short novel that probes desire, maturity and death.
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.
