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Eros the Bittersweet

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeA book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature.

Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's Spring and All and William H.

Gass's On Being Blue.

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Dalkey Archive Press
1564781887 / 9781564781888
Paperback / softback
16/04/1998
United States
English
190 pages
139 x 216 mm, 272 grams
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