
Eros the Bittersweet
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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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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Bittersweet
- Gone
- Ruse
- Tactics
- The Reach
- Finding the Edge
- Logic at the Edge
- Losing the Edge
- Archilochos at the Edge
- Alphabetic Edge
- What Does the Lover Want from Love?
- Symbolon
- A Novel Sense
- Something Paradoxical
- My Page Makes Love
- Letters, Letters
- Folded Meanings
- Bellerophon Is Quite Wrong After All
- Realist
- Ice-Pleasure
- Now Then
- Erotikos Logos
- The Sidestep
- Damage to the Living
- Midas
- Cicadas
- Gardening for Fun and Profit
- Something Serious Is Missing
- Takeover
- Read Me the Bit Again
- Then Ends Where Now Begins
- What a Difference a Wing Makes
- What Is This Dialogue About?
- Mythoplokos
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages Discussed
- General Index
- Back Cover
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