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Course Description

We will study two groups of loosely related novels concerned with human vulnerability to chance, history, society’s blind enforcement of norms, and death. The “Kepesh” novels, which include The Breast (1972), The Professor of Desire (1977), and The Dying Animal (2001), share a common character—literature professor David Kepesh—and insights about the complex relationship between one’s imagination and capacity for emotional commitment. Roth’s last novels—Everyman (2006), Indignation (2008), The Humbling (2009), and Nemesis (2010)—comprising the “Nemeses” group, tell the stories of four men, each brought down by a sudden catastrophe.

For our first class please read The Breast.

Prerequisites

None.
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