Die Brust.

Paperback

German language

Published Nov. 1, 1998 by Rowohlt Tb..

ISBN:
978-3-499-22316-7
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OCLC Number:
75949297

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4 stars

A peculiar short novel by a favorite author of mine who you've probably heard of recently because he's the writer of [b:The Plot Against America|703|The Plot Against America|Philip Roth|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1553896240l/703.SY75.jpg|911456], which is now (March, 2020) an HBO series. As the description of it says on this site, [a:Philip Roth|463|Philip Roth|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1399886959p2/463.jpg]is, in [b:The Breast|50990|The Breast|Philip Roth|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327936311l/50990.SY75.jpg|387473], entering into [a:Franz Kafka|5223|Franz Kafka|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1569196898p2/5223.jpg]'s [b:The Metamorphosis|485894|The Metamorphosis|Franz Kafka|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1359061917l/485894.SY75.jpg|2373750] territory. (An aside. Want to know something about The Metamorphosis most don't? Nowhere in the original does it say the guy woke up as a cockroach. He's called "a hideous vermin," but it's never given a name.)
The book is a heady thing, a musing on transformation and madness. It's very much of its time, which is 1970 or so (it was published in 1971).
At one point, the narrator doubts he has actually turned into a 155-pound breast and has …