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The Reddest Rose

The Reddest Rose Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality Tv

Paperback (13 Dec 2022)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 Beyoncè, 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 Zizek, 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?

Book information

ISBN: 9781683964599
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.59485
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20230725
Language: English
Number of pages: 168
Weight: 340g
Height: 254mm
Width: 178mm
Spine width: 25mm