- Fiction, Teacher-student relationships, David Kepesh (Fictitious character), Women college students
"David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder.".
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Classical in form, grave, prestige and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Philip Roth
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Hanser, Debolsillo, Editura Polirom
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, French, Russian, rum
- ISBN
- 9788483467152
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“I KNEW HER eight years ago.”
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) 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 fictio
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