Professeur de désir

Resumen del libro

David Kepesh, jeune professeur (très doué) de littérature comparée, est resté un étudiant (tout aussi doué) en érotisme comparé. Sa devise est celle de Byron : " Studieux le jour et la nuit licencieux. " Son étude approfondie du désir passe d'abord par des jeux scabreux avec Bettan et Birgitta, jeunes Suédoises aventureuses, puis le plonge dans l'exotisme et la passion avec Helen, belle, mystérieuse, insaisissable. Il épouse son héroïne mais se retrouve perdu dans le désert de l'amour. La traversée en sera dure, il y perdra jusqu'à la trace du désir. Puis c'est la découverte enfin de l'oasis inespérée. Claire est belle, voluptueuse, mais limpide comme son nom, droite, sans équivoque. Ne s'agit-il pas encore une fois d'un mirage ? Traduit de l'anglais Henri Robillot.

Biografía del autor

Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) 1 is an American novelist.<br><br>He first gained attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of American-Jewish life for which he received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, 2 3 Roth's fiction, regularly set in Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "supple, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. 4 His profile rose significantly in 1969 after the publication of the controversial Portnoy's Complaint, the humorous and sexually explicit psychoanalytical monologue of "a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor," filled with "intimate, shameful detail, and coarse, abusive language." 3 5 <br><br>Roth is one of the most awarded U.S. writers of his generation: his books have twice received the National Book Award, twice the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, which featured one of his best-known characters, Nathan Zuckerman, the subject of many other of Roth's novels. The Human Stain (2000), another Zuckerman novel, was awarded the United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize and, in 2012.<br><br>