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As much as we want to romanticize our life as human beings, there are just things that are plain ugly. Whether we give into the ugly & somewhat natural temptation or just find ourselves thinking about them, Philip Roth captured & managed to tell it into a beautifully disturbing story. A book that may be testing us on our ability to face these realities rather than cringe and look away, I find myself picking up this book to re-read once in a while

the expectations were very high but I do not know if they were fully satisfied.
the simple but ambiguous plot tells the story of a sex-obsessed professor who falls in love with Consuela. love ? I'm not sure. Consuela is the impersonation of his obsession and perhaps it is this that binds David.
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Le aspettattive erano molto alte e non sono ancora sicura che siano state soddisfatte appieno.
La trama alquanto semplice quanto ambigua lascia trasparire pian piano la storia di un professore che fa del sesso la sua ossessione. Non so se l'amore per Consuela sia autentico così come descritto cosa dovuta fatto che Consuela è l'impersonificazione della sua ossessione e forse è questo a legare David.

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Short novel, my first by Philip Roth. Read in a single afternoon session and now I think I'll have to read the rest of his stuff. Excellent.

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.