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product_id: 19399604
title: "The Dying Animal"
brand: "philip roth"
price: "₩44344"
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# The Dying Animal

**Brand:** philip roth
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## Customer Reviews

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    Wallflower at the revolution
  

*by Z***1 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 14, 2004*

I read Philip Roth's first few books then missed a couple of decades. Upon joining an online discussion group I read this book and find he has become just another old goat looking for young poon. Is he vying for that rascal Henry Miller`s mantle as Dirty Old Man of American Letters? I know that art can be about anything but an essay on the changes in society over the last forty years would have sufficed. Like many Woody Allen fans I prefer the older, funnier work.Roth is a fine writer and unlike some best selling authors he does have a lot to say. I just could not get past the story of a twenty year old entering into a liaison with a senior citizen. As young coeds in the sixties, my friends and I would never entertain such thoughts about even the youngest instructors. "He must be at least thirty and probably married." We had plenty of callow frat boys buzzing around who didn't know anything about anything and it suited us just fine.Attending college in Canada, the Vietnam War did not really affect us except for the occasional kid with a Yank accent panhandling on the street. Draft dodgers. We kept our distance because American boys had a reputation for being fast..... By the seventies I was safely married sat on the sidelines during the devolution of the freedom movement into the disco era. That generation jettisoned the ideology and kept the drugs. A writer of Roth's stature would have no end of groupies willing to sit at his feet or do anything else he wanted. It was amusing when he invoked the US Constitution to bolster his case for doing exactly as he pleased. Rogering as an Inalienable Right.His alter ego in the book is not an altogether hopeless case. Anyone as erudite and cultured as David Kepesh cannot be all bad. I found it endearing that he persisted with his piano playing even though he kept hitting wrong notes. He was truly attached to his friend George and went out of his way to make his last days meaningful even though it was an exercise in futility. We are all wary of being smothered by the very people from whom we seek comfort. Intimacy is fraught with danger. But being alone has pitfalls as well as pleasures.Having a peek beneath David's detached exterior it gives the reader hope that he will extend himself to the ailing Consuela. The affair that caused him to regress into adolescent jealousy and possessiveness may enable him to finally grow up. He only has to take the opportunity to redeem himself.

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    Sex is Life. Sex is Death.
  

*by G***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 18, 2017*

Mention Philip Roth to almost any literate woman and you'll hear a howl of outrage. "A male chauvinist pig, an unrepentant Don Giovanni, a loathsome narcissist stroking his ego and thinking it's his shlang! Or vice-versa." I'll wager very few woman readers get past the first ten pages of The Dying Animal. Honestly, I almost tossed the book myself, being more or less post-erotic and easily bored by other people's lust. But I soldiered on. I'm not unhappy I did. It's a book to love and hate with equal fervor, because it's about a "self" that one must love and hate with open eyes. Roth is often taken as a paragon of self-adulation, and his character in this novel  -- a drama critic named David Krepesh -- anoints himself to be the ultimate evolutionary product of sexual liberation while simultaneously portraying himself as a hopeless victim of sexual obsession. Sex is life; sex is death.Alas, Roth's depiction of Krepesh as a hero/victim of the 60s jibes achingly with my own memory-image of myself in the throes of the "sexual revolution." I despise Krepesh. I am Krepesh. (Or I was Krepesh then and would probably still be Krepesh today except for etc.) Yeah, the book is literary smut, but so is life. And then it turns out to be just what the title proclaims: a book about Death. With highly amusing interpolations and meanderings. It's just 150 pages. You might give it a shot.

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    Roth is one of our greatest authors; his prose is not like any others ...
  

*by S***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2015*

Roth is one of our greatest authors; his prose is not like any others in contemporary writings.  His plots are so varied - I have read almost all his books and even if I am not in love with each plot, I must say they all surprise me.  The main character is a mysteryin the beginning but by the middle, he is exposed and the beat goes on after that.  The twists and turns kept me interested from thebeginning and I must say I did not want it to end.  One has to be open to his sex scenes or they might be offended.  I was notoffended as they fit nicely in the plot.  I recommend this book as it is an excellent read.This is only a note on how much I enjoyed it but not wanting to give away the plot, I must say the plot was filled with insight into one man, his family and his lovers lives.  By attempting to avoid outing himself he shows the pain he instills on others and mostly himself.

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