![]() ![]() ![]() What follows is a deliriously funny yet moving exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human experience. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narrator of Philip Roth's fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. What follows is a deliriously funny yet moving exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human. ![]() The Breast in Ruins: Heinrich von Kleist and the Language of the Breast 8. Revealing the Phallus, Concealing the Breast: The Revolutionary Fictions of Wilhelm Heinse and Therese Huber 7. Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. Sophie von La Roche and the Communities of the Breast 6. ![]()
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