The Professor of Desire

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' — an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime. As Philip Roth follows Kapesh from the domesticity of childhood out into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the depths of loneliness in New York, Kapesh confronts the central dilemma of pleasure: how to make a truce between dignity and desire; and how to survive the ordeal of an unhallowed existence.

• Author
• Philip Roth

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 272

• Publisher
• Vintage

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-09-938901-9

• EAN
• 9780099389019

• Release date
• 1995