An old-and-seventy years, lecherous professor David Kepesh relates to a listener anonymous, in a 170-page monologue, the vicissitudes of his passion for a Cuban girl, who was student of hers, almost forty years his junior, and which have paradoxically put the name of: Consuelo. We say, slyly, that the listener is not, as in other books of Roth-the psychoanalyst but plastic surgeon: "There are only a few that are displayed without reservation and today, because so much controversy, to me knot are those with the type of breast you would have invented. " (page 156), and the story happens at home of Kepesh: "[There is a picture of Stanley Spencer at the Tate Gallery ...] is one of Spencer's books, below. Then I'll go for. " (page 157). We say, again covertly, that the book should be concluded very soon after September 11 - "A brilliant ... had not been on for Bin Laden. " (page 158) - and maybe then fall into the trap of comparing dates and say alter ego of the author. It The Dying Animal by Philip Roth (Alfaguara, 2 nd edition 2007), which is, again, love and decrepitude.
Three paintings-four if you count Las Meninas, which is used for seduction, indicate the decisive moments in history: the San Sebastian of Mantegna, who compared the girl who shows her menses (page 84), the nude by Modigliani, which illustrates the cover of the edition of Houghton Mifflin, 2001 - on the postcard that you fill Consuelo Kepesh: "A naked breasts whose bulky, could have taken his own [Consuelo] as a model ... inexplicably slept on an abyss of black velvet, given my mood, I associated with the tomb. " (page 112), and finally (pages 156, 157 and 158), Stanley Spencer: "... a portrait in which Spencer and his wife, two forties and appear naked ... " *:, and Kepesh-Roth describes in minute delight, with true morbidity. A still life with decrepit. As well finish the book. Life just as well.
* Double Nude Portrait: the Artist and His Second Wife 1937
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