The Breast

The Breast

The Breast is a novella by Philip Roth, in which the main character, David Kepesh, becomes a 155-pound breast. Throughout the book Kepesh fights with himself. Part of him wishes to give in to bodily desires, while the other part of him wants to be rational. Kepesh, a literature professor, compares his plight with that of fictional characters such as Gregor Samsa in Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis and Kovalyov in Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Nose". Throughout the novel, he describes the various sexual and physical feelings he has while people handle him, while initiating sex with his...
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Author:Philip Roth
Genre:Fiction, Novella
Year published:1972
Number of editions:8

Author of The Breast

Philip Roth
Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. In 1969 he became a major celebrity with the publication of the controversial...
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Additional works by Philip Roth
BookCopyright DateGenre
Goodbye, Columbus Short story
I Married a Communist Novel
American Pastoral Novel
The Human Stain Novel
The Ghost Writer July 2004 Novel
The Plot Against America 2004 Fiction
The Counterlife Fiction
The Anatomy Lesson Novel
Zuckerman Unbound Novel
Everyman Fiction
Our Gang Fiction
Portnoy's Complaint Novel
Sabbath's Theater
Deception: A Novel
The Dying Animal Novel
My Life As a Man Fiction
When She Was Good Novel
The Great American Novel Fiction
The Prague Orgy
Letting Go Novel
The Professor of Desire Novel
Operation Shylock: A Confession Fiction
Exit Ghost Novel
Patrimony: A True Story Non-fiction
Indignation Novel
Reading Myself and Others
A Philip Roth Reader Novel
Nemesis
The Humbling Novel
Quand Elle Etait Gentille
Elegia
Shop Talk
Conversations with Philip Roth
Le Sein
Novels, 1967-1972
Laisser courir, tome I
Novotny's pain
El Pecho/ The Breast
Ma vie d'homme
conversion of the Jews
El Oficio
Conjura Contra America, La
Tatsachen. Autobiographie eines Schriftstellers
Die Anatomiestunde
L'Habit ne fait pas le moine
On the air
Total quality management resource manual
Der Ghostwriter. Roman
The Facts
La Contrevie
Gegenleben
Täuschung
Die Brust
Professeur de désir
La Mancha Humana
La Leçon d'anatomie
Roth P When She Was Good
Das sterbende Tier
Tricard Dixon et ses copains
Novels & stories, 1959-1962
L'Ecrivain des ombres
Philip Guston - Peintures 1947-1979
Les Faits
Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Human Stain, the Novel by Philip Roth
Der menschliche Makel
Amerikanisches Idyll
Deception
Novels, 1973-1977
Zuckerman Bound Fiction
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Literary Genres

Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Novella
Novella

A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The English word "novella" derives from...
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    When was the work "The Breast" first published?
  • A:
    The book was first distributed in 1972.
  • Q:
    The book "The Breast" is in what literary genre?
  • A:
    The written work is labeled as: Fiction.
  • Q:
    The work, "The Breast" is of which literary category?
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    "The Breast" is cataloged in the category: Literary
  • Q:
    How many pages is the book "The Breast"?
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    The book consists of 78 pages.

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