by Philip Roth, David Colacci
I just...did not get this. I didn't dislike it, I wasn't offended by it, I was just...baffled. I don't get what he's trying to do or say or what the deeper hidden meaning might be. If there was one, it flew right over my head. So, in reference to The Metamorphosis, (it and The Nose are mentioned pro...
In a bizarre Freudian twist on Kafka's Metamorphosis, a sexually obsessed man wakes up to discover he has transformed into a giant breast.
The plot is similar to Kafka's Metamorphosis, but he turns into a giant breast rather than a giant cockroach. I just couldn't get with this book. Maybe I'm not interested enough in breasts? But I'm male, so that seems unlikely. I give up.
Short novel, skimmed it in 20 minutes. Only something Philip Roth could come up with. A professor literally turns into a 150+ lb female breast. Most of the time he's dealing with doctors, his father and various collegues trying to figure out what happened and adjusting to his new existence. He's fig...
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