The Breast 4209814 161089109 2007-09-29T09:45:56Z D Monack 415116 copy edits {{Infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = The Breast | title_orig = | translator = | image = [[Image:The Breast by Philip Roth cover scan.jpg|200px]] | image_caption = Cover of [[Vintage (publisher)|Vintage Classics]] reprint | author = [[Philip Roth]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = [[United States]] | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | genre = [[Novella]] | publisher = [[Vintage (publisher)|Vintage]] (reprint) | release_date = 1972 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]]) | pages = 96 | isbn = ISBN 0679749012<br />ISBN 978-0679749011 | preceded_by = | followed_by = [[The Professor of Desire]] }} '''''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. {{PhilipRoth}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Breast}} [[Category:1972 novels]] [[Category:Novels by Philip Roth]] [[Category:Shapeshifting in fiction]]