The Breast is a novella by Philip Roth, in which the main character,
David Kepesh, becomes a 155-pound breast. Throughout the book Kepesh
fights with himself. Part of him wishes to give in to bodily desires,
while the other part of him wants to be rational. Kepesh, a literature
professor, compares his plight with that of fictional characters such as
Gregor Samsa in Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis and Kovalyov in
Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Nose". Throughout the novel, he
describes the various sexual and physical feelings he has while people
handle him, while initiating sex with his girlfriend, and while he is
alone.
During a stay on the beach with his girlfriend, Claire, Kepesh had
wished to have breasts, to be a breast, and he struggles with the idea
that apparently this wish was fulfilled while other more important
wishes were not.

Read by David Colacci

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