Octavio Paz
The Double Flame
Essays on Love & Eroticism
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One has the impression, on reading Octavio Paz's new book on love, of coming across a survivor, a kind of miracle... Here is a man who knows as much as the greatest specialists about the most important human passion, and yet who... addresses himself to the common reader, in a language at once poetic and comprehensibleTZVETAN TODOROV, New RepublicIn this engrossing book, the Nobel laurate Octavio Paz, explores the illimitable mysteries of love. He relates a history of love - how love has been transformed in both the East and the West as revealed in literature, philosophy and religion. Beginning with Plato's Symposium he goes on to describe t…
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One has the impression, on reading Octavio Paz's new book on love, of coming across a survivor, a kind of miracle... Here is a man who knows as much as the greatest specialists about the most important human passion, and yet who... addresses himself to the common reader, in a language at once poetic and comprehensibleTZVETAN TODOROV, New RepublicIn this engrossing book, the Nobel laurate Octavio Paz, explores the illimitable mysteries of love. He relates a history of love - how love has been transformed in both the East and the West as revealed in literature, philosophy and religion. Beginning with Plato's Symposium he goes on to describe the influence of the great cities of Alexandria and Rome on the development of love poetry; courtly love in Heian Japan and twelfth-century France; and love in modern novels, as Madame Bovary and Ulysses. In a second strand he examines the geography of love which he sees as three concentric circles - sexuality, eroticism, and love - defining sexuality as the desire to reproduce; eroticism as sexuality transfigured by the imagination and love as an erotic relationship which corresponds to a particular person. Bemoaning that Capitalism has turned Eros into an employee of Mammon, he nonetheless finds hope in the fact that there are scientists who believe we can go no further in our attempts to explain the world and that therefore the mystery of the sublime, carnal embrace will remain.These essays are a memorable discourse on what Paz calls our share of paradiseThis is a work of erotic erudition, and not - to avoid confusion - of erudite eroticism. Here Paz is a philosopher and taxonomist of loveNew YorkerOne of the most brilliant and original essayists in any languageJEAN STAVANS, Washington Post
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4464-7701-4
- EAN: 9781446477014
- Produktnummer: 14352296
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 258 KB
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