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The Dying Animal - Philip Roth

L 'dying animal - commentary on the novel by Philip Roth -

A Philip Roth in great shape.

Ironic, deep, dramatic in this short novel that could be called hastily to the erotic genre ( The Portnoy's Complaint). To me it seemed, instead, an arm of the famous trilogy, a piece to add to quell'impeccabile fresco on America after the war ( American Pastoral, I Married a Communist The Human Stain), that the writer has given us in recent years.

An older man falls in love, out of control, no brakes, a very young woman, very pretty, detached, intriguing.

We are in the sixties. America lives the explosion of the sexual revolution, the spread of behaviors that the girls "had no biological terror erection, they did not fear the transformation phallic man." And David Kepesh (also the protagonist of the story and comic visionary, The breast) everything is easy. Exercised with great natural charm and his influence on students the tip as a hunting dog and seizes without miss the opportunities, however, the girls the offer without caution, without any request.

Man it moves forward in reading, one realizes, however, that this is not to tell that David Roth is talk of Consuela, his perfect body and her breasts, "the best I've ever seen .

Social transformation, obsessive attraction to this woman become food for deep and painful reflections on life that passes, the unbridgeable gap between youth and old age, "the wound of old age" on death. Yes, David, Consuela is a fixed idea, an idea of \u200b\u200bpossession, but without love nor passion, nor feelings. She explores the body, contemplation of bodies, pleasures that the mere contemplation can give. E 'on the bodies that the transformations of time are seen much more than feelings. And speaking of Consuela's breasts. The breasts, the symbol of nourishment, from which the old - and Roth challenge this word - it feeds using sex as a "revenge on death. not forget, death. Never forget it. "

But the relationship ends for a trivial pretext, which is logical in the field when there are feelings. Spend some time. David has seventy. 's just the night of the millennium. A message on the answering machine's back, as from an 'ancient times, the voice of Consuela, who asked to see him. David, overcoming weak uncertainties, the recalls and the other side. She's always beautiful, with a strange hat and looked more mature, which makes it very feminine. Surrenders and confesses that he wept with breast cancer and will be made, perhaps a radical operation. Her breasts, her magnificent breasts. Asks David to photograph them because no one has ever loved her body like him. And he is willing, wants to please her in everything. But this does not require more.

With a flick of the tail old age she takes on youth. "Now his sense of time is like mine, pressing and even more desolate than mine. Consuela actually passed me. Because I can still tell me I will not die in five years, maybe I will not die ... I could live out of ten still another twenty, and she ... "

David seventies, he can never take that food. The breasts are of no use anymore.

cancer, the great justice!

I read a long interview with Philip Roth about to publish a book "death." The writer says he has to deal with this topic that he did not think long.

do not agree with Roth. In 'Animal dying seems to me that this thought, along with that of old age, is very present, as is present in the trilogy. The Human Stain, pages describing the death of a friend dying what are they? What are Roth's characters as they confront the youth, if not a melancholy and resigned reflection on death?

seems to me that Roth is compared continuously with the thought of death is the background even when writing about another.

Mezzadri Maria Grazia Hood