The double flame : love and eroticism / Octavio Paz ; translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Llama doble. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in literature.

Love in literature.

Erotic literature--History and criticism.

Erotic literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 276 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace, [1995]

Summary:

In The Double Flame, Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love - themes that have been a constant in his writing, from his first published poems to the great works of his maturity. Beginning with Plato's Symposium, he gives a short history of love and eroticism in literature throughout the ages: from the influence of the great cities Alexandria and Rome on the development of love poetry, to courtly love in Heian Japan and twelfth-century France, to love in modern novels such as Madame Bovary and Ulysses. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, Original Sin to artificial intelligence.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0151001030

OCLC:

31074928