THE REDDEST ROSE : ROMANTIC LOVE FROM THE ANCIENT GREEKS TO REALITY TV
Εκδότης Fantagraphics , ISBN 9781683964599
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 interlocutor characters, drawn in a zine-y, 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 Žižek, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ariadne, and many
others make cameos.
For the first time in English, in THE REDDEST ROSE, Strömquist wonders:
in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive?
Περίληψη
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 interlocutor characters, drawn in a zine-y, 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 Žižek, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ariadne, and many
others make cameos.
For the first time in English, in THE REDDEST ROSE, Strömquist wonders:
in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive?
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Strömquist, Liv
- Eκδότης Fantagraphics
- ISBN 9781683964599
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100080255
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2022
- Σελίδες 184
- Διαστάσεις 24χ17
- Βάρος 350 gr
