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The deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Strömquist's The Reddest Rose is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of 20-something models? Her answer -- in the form of this collection of well-researched, humorous comics essays -- tracks how philosophers and artists, from the Ancient Greeks to Beyoncé, conceptualized romantic love. Strömquist's signature characters, drawn in a flat, blocky style, ask each other questions and offer sharp commentary as they guide readers throughout history and the change in societies' values, from showing love/loving to getting love/being loved. (Poet Hilda "H.D." Doolittle -- who was so love-stricken by a man taking off his glasses that she believed they viewed dolphins together in another dimension -- lends the book its title.) Lord Byron, Socrates, Byung-Chul Han, Ezra Pound, Slavoj Zizek, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ariadne, and many others have cameos. For the first time in English, in The Reddest Rose, Strömquist wonders: in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive?
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
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1
- Languages:
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Original:
English
- Number of Pages:
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184
- Age Recommendation:
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18 and up
- Publisher:
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Fantagraphics Books
- Publication Date:
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2023-01-31
- Release Date:
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2022-06-07
- ISBN / EAN:
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9781683964599
- Weight:
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478 g
- Dimensions:
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17/25/2 cm
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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[email protected]
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