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The novel The Passion Professor (1977) follows the life of David Kepesh, from childhood to his academic career, through the prism of sexual desires and emotional insecurities. Roth's unique style is a mixture of autobiographical elements and satire.
The main character Oskar Matzerath, born in Gdańsk in 1924, tells his life from the point of view of a three-year-old child. On his third birthday, he decided not to grow up, and from that day on, his story about the view of the adult world begins.
The novel tells about the social rise of a poor young man, Julien Sorel, in a conservative, counter-revolutionary and authoritarian regime in the era of the re-establishment of the monarchy after the fall of Napoleon and the return of the Bourbon dynasty
The tense, often erotically charged atmosphere of The Shadow Writer brought P. Roth enormous international success.