The Professor of Desire Philip Roth
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

That novel was excellent as well as the next one, ?The Ghost Writer?. David Kapesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possiblities. But then I came across some very positive reviews of Roth's novel ?The Professor of Desire. The Professor of Desire: Madison Moore, Yale's Fiercest Ph.D Candidate. It seems like there are probably a million more. We listen, nodding, being too young, really, to know the meaning of desire. Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire (1977), pp. It is something you learn from having a long stretch of lack. He says things about the body too. LINK: Download The Professor of Desire Audio Book. The professor has something to say about desire. Jenkins plays 62-year-old Walter Vale, a just-going-through-the-motions economics professor at a Connecticut college, where he teaches only one class a semester on the pretext he is working on his fourth book in his field of study, his first three presumably not having set the world on fire. See: World According to Garp, The Corrections, Wonder Boys, Blue Angel, My Life as a Man and the Professor of Desire and The Dying Animal. I didn't know what to expect when I picked up The Professor of Desire in BMV, but I thought it sounded interesting and unusual, and I'd never read anything by Philip Roth before, so I figured, why not? He has been especially lethargic since the recent . There is a wonderful moment in Roth's ?The Professor of Desire? (It's around pg 175 in the first edition, I think) when the narrator, David Kepesh, urges his students to appreciate college. Everyone has crushed out on a teacher or professor?either the crush consists of simple transference, the admiration of the professor's sophistication and charisma when she's orating at the front of.