Description: 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 Žižek, 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?
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EAN: 9781683964599
UPC: 9781683964599
ISBN: 9781683964599
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Format: Paperback, 184 pages
Author: Liv Stromquist
Book Title: The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient G
Item Height: 1.8 cm
Item Length: 24.1 cm
Item Weight: 0.38 kg
Item Width: 17.3 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Fantagraphics
