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"In The Double Flame, Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love - themes that have been a constant in his writing, from his first published poems to the great works of his maturity. Beginning with Plato's Symposium, he gives a short history of love and eroticism in literature throughout the ages: from the influence of the great cities Alexandria and Rome on the development of love poetry, to courtly love in Heian Japan and twelfth-century France, to love in modern novels such as Madame Bovary and Ulysses. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, Original Sin to artificial intelligence."--BOOK JACKET.
In The Double Flame, Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love - themes that have been a constant in his writing, from his first published poems to the great works of his maturity.
Beginning with Plato's Symposium, he gives a short history of love and eroticism in literature throughout the ages: from the influence of the great cities Alexandria and Rome on the development of love poetry, to courtly love in Heian Japan and twelfth-century France, to love in modern novels such as Madame Bovary and Ulysses. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, Original Sin to artificial intelligence.
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
June 1996, Harcourt
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0614976480 9780614976489
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The double flame: love and eroticism
1996, Harcourt, Inc.
in English
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0156003651 9780156003650
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
June 1996, Harvest/HBJ Book
in English
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The double flame: essays on love and eroticism
1996, Harvill Press
in English
1860462502 9781860462504
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The double flame: love and eroticism
1995, Harcourt Brace
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
0151001030 9780151001033
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