Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson, Sandra Newman (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 1 December 2022

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232 Pages

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of 'eros' in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, 'It was Sappho who first called eros "bittersweet". No one who has been in love disputes her', Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue.

Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book.

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"Anne Carson is a rare talent, brilliant and full of wit, passionate and also deeply moving."-Michael Ondaatje

"What we learn from Eros the Bittersweet while being spun alive by its brilliance is that its author is a philosopher of much cunning and an agile reader, a scholar with a mind as fresh as a spring meadow, no dust anywhere on her."-Guy Davenport

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