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El pecho

El pecho

Literary FictionMagical Realism
Pages
96
Published
2007
Language
Spanish

Synopsis

Literature professor David Kepesh awakens one morning to an unimaginable transformation: he has become a giant female breast. This surreal novella explores his bewildering new reality as he grapples with the loss of his former self, his identity, and the bizarre implications of his altered physical state.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

Thought-ProvokingComplexMelancholic
Fish Out of Water

Genres

Literary Fiction Magical Realism Body Horror

Authors

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, whic...