Philip Roth

After he is transformed into a 155-pound female breast, college professor David Kepesh struggles to rationalize his condition by proving he is insane

The Breast

Toni Turner

What the actual heck. I had to read this for a course I'm taking and jeez. I did not expect that. While the concept of the book was already weird I felt like the author took every opportunity to make the reader uncomfortable and used it. I guess because most people laugh when they are uncomfortable and the goal was for this to be funny but I was not amused. I mean it was so provocative that I read it in one sitting and way faster than I expected to...so that's something.

Simon Harrison

Very strange and definitely showing its age, or the drugs involved in its conception

Zein Esber

Trevor Berrett

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narrator of Philip Roth's fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet moving exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis; audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human experience.

The Breast

Reviews