‘‘The Kugelmass Episode’’ was first published in the May 2, 1977, in an issue of “The New Yorker”, is Woody Allen’s fantastic story of a dissatisfied humanities professor who has himself transported into the fictional world of Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”.
The main character of the story is a professor Kugelmass, who first brings up his desire to have an affair to his therapist, who does not approve of the idea, and that’s why he stops seeing him.
Professor Kugelmass teaches humanities at City College in New York City. Kugelmass is in the middle of his second unhappy marriage, to his wife Daphne, and has two children from his first marriage. The professor is also short of money as he pays his first wife a healthy alimony check along with child support. He had thought Daphne would be different than his first wife and that he would be happy with her, but life with Daphne is just boring.
When Kugelmass tells his therapist that he wants to have an affair, because he wants romance and excitement in his, he expects compassion and sympathy from him. But his therapist tells him that having an affair would not solve his problems, but then again Kugelmass doesn’t care of his or other people’s opinion, it’s only his opinion and he’s a need that’s matter.
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