S2E14 Continuing our exploration of literary metamorphoses, this week we look at David Alan Kepesh, a literature professor inexplicably transformed into a woman's breast in this 1972 novella by Philip Roth. Unlike Gregor Samsa, Kepesh is aware of the literary heritage of metamorphoses, making this transformation painfully self-conscious. Is the novel a sly dig at Roth's critics? Is the work, as Martin Amis believes, "comic in shape but only glancingly comic in execution"? Listen in to find out. @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis Music: "Not Drunk" by the Joy Drops.
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3ª PARTE | 17 DIC 2025 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE
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