The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality T

Name: The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality T
Brand: Fantagraphics Books
SKU: 9781683964599-V
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By Liv Strömquist, Liv Strömquist

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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:: 1
Number of Pages:: 184
Release Date:: 2022-06-07
Publication Date:: 2023-01-31
Publisher:: Fantagraphics Books
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1683964594
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:: 18
Maximum Reading Age:: 99
Weight:: 544 g
Height:: 25.4 cm
Width:: 17.7 cm
Thickness:: 2.5 cm

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