The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism

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In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. “Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness, and sincerity” (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Helen Lane.

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Overview

In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. “Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness, and sincerity” (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Helen Lane.

Noble Laureate Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism and love in this collection of essays. Beginning with Plato's Symposium, he gives a short history of love and eroticism in literature throughout the ages.

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Editorial Reviews

San Francisco Chronicle
A learned, thoughtful study of love and literature.
Boston Globe
Elegant, pensive and intimate...a brilliant synthesis of ideas.
Washington Post Book World
The Double Flame is a tour de force -- generous, engrossing, insightful, rewarding, the testament to a portentous mind, a volume about ethos by a youthful old man. Its scope helps explain, once again, why Paz, Mexican by birth and cosmopolitan by education, is this century's intellectual conscience.
Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Nobel laureate Paz presents a humanist examination of the roles played by love and eros in modern life and society. (June)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780156003650
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing
  • Publication date: 6/28/1996
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 808,900
  • Product dimensions: 8.00 (w) x 5.25 (h) x 0.65 (d)

Meet the Author

Octavio Paz was born in 1914 and died in 1998. The author of eighteen books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

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Table of Contents

Preface
1 The Kingdoms of Pan 1
2 Eros and Psyche 28
3 The Prehistory of Love 53
4 The Lady and the Saint 89
5 A Solar System 124
6 The Morning Star 163
7 The City Square and the Bedroom 188
8 Digressions on the Way to a Conclusion 215
9 Recapitulation: The Double Flame 253
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