Eros the Bittersweet

Tremendous Piece of Scholarship, Brilliant writing !! I Keep going back to this book! Revolutionize the contemporary lyrical essay and he monograph possibilities of a humanities researched dissertation. Anne Cason is a genius and a savant at communicating he genious,

This book is wonderful! Very engaging and thought-provoking. The author develops her points very well and uses examples that can act as reading recommendations for the future.

Even though Amazon wants me to treat this book as a piece of fiction, it's really a lyrical essay, so things like pace, mood, and character development are not the right way to judge this incredible exploration of desire.

This brief account of eros is beautifully poetic distillation of the multiple instantiations of the logic of eros in ancient Greek philosophy and myth. Carson is a first rate classicist and her powers as an interpreter of ancient Greek texts is abundant here. More importantly, her poetic sensibility illuminates the lightness and complexity of the movement of eros; through readings of Plato, Sappho, and others, a vibrant picture of eros and its place within Greek thought emerges. I was particularly struck with her writing on the temporality of eros, which does so much to encapsulate its paradoxical essence. A supremely beautiful and enlightening text.

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I owned the paperback of this book. I'm so glad it's on kindle I purchased that too. Anne Carson has delivered a treatise- very readable- on Eros and its meanings throughout the ages. Anne Carson -- anything by her is on my A reading list.

A very thoughtful perspective.

This is a classic, a gift for my professor girlfriend - and if one is interested in Literature (capital 'L') or gender studies or just reading a well written piece of scholarship, this is a must.

A classic essay and a must read. I would say an essential for every scholar and future artist reflecting on the essence of time

The beauty of this book does not lie in the adornment of its words but in the power of its insights. It does not give its point away and one needs to read it with full attention, but in the end, it can give you more than an understanding of what the Greeks called Eros, but an experience.

Un libro magistralmente escrito en donde la autora desgrana la relación entre amor y sexo, fundamentándose en la visión del amor, Eros, en la Grecia clásica. Lo que interpreta poco tiene que ver con el amor tal y como se entiende hoy en día en la calle. Profundiza en lo que es esencial, universal en el sentimiento y la pasión amorosos y las tensiones que comporta.

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Nice book- not for all the readers though. I'm glad that i have studied Classic Greek & Latin literature, because that made my reading more easy and familiar. If you are not a grecian, this will bore you. It's not a ''lesbian'' book, it's a literature essay- who happens to analyze the subject of Eros (Love in ancient greek).