The Breast
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{{Infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name = The Breast
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| image = [[Image:The Breast by Philip Roth cover scan.jpg|200px]]
| image_caption = Cover of [[Vintage (publisher)|Vintage Classics]] reprint
| author = [[Philip Roth]]
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| country = [[United States]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| series =
| genre = [[Novella]]
| publisher = [[Vintage (publisher)|Vintage]] (reprint)
| release_date = 1972
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| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages = 96
| isbn = ISBN 0679749012<br />ISBN 978-0679749011
| preceded_by =
| followed_by = [[The Professor of Desire]]
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'''''The Breast''''' ([[1972 in literature|1972]]) 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.
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[[Category:1972 novels]]
[[Category:Novels by Philip Roth]]
[[Category:Shapeshifting in fiction]]